What I said is really my attitude as a developer too. (Albeit as a developer of small, weird programs for a small, weird audience.)
As long as someone takes responsibility for their own actions, and doesn't come crying to the developer for help (which they are not obligated to and
likely will not want to give), they have a right to poke around at things, and even change them if they feel it necessary. Just don't come crying to the
original programmer if your computer explodes in a massive fireball...
I once worked on a project for a person who insisted that the data files the program used be hidden from the user.
I hated it. It made no sense. A person who wanted to could extract everything of value from it just by using the program itself, and a simple utility program.
(Which I'd posted online before the start of the project.) But what really made it bad was that I program in an interpreted language which has no tools
available for hiding your code, so any obfuscating attempts I made would be futile...
Interestingly, neither that new directory (which they don't seem to want to hide), nor the piggs directory (which they do) are set with the hidden
attribute. Which would probably keep them from the eyes of a signficant number of people.
As far as "pigg diving" being prohibited by the EULA, I find it morally questionable to assign validity to a part of a contract that takes away
legally protected rights of the user. But then, I'm also not interested in pigg diving.
-Morgan.
As long as someone takes responsibility for their own actions, and doesn't come crying to the developer for help (which they are not obligated to and
likely will not want to give), they have a right to poke around at things, and even change them if they feel it necessary. Just don't come crying to the
original programmer if your computer explodes in a massive fireball...
I once worked on a project for a person who insisted that the data files the program used be hidden from the user.
I hated it. It made no sense. A person who wanted to could extract everything of value from it just by using the program itself, and a simple utility program.
(Which I'd posted online before the start of the project.) But what really made it bad was that I program in an interpreted language which has no tools
available for hiding your code, so any obfuscating attempts I made would be futile...
Interestingly, neither that new directory (which they don't seem to want to hide), nor the piggs directory (which they do) are set with the hidden
attribute. Which would probably keep them from the eyes of a signficant number of people.
As far as "pigg diving" being prohibited by the EULA, I find it morally questionable to assign validity to a part of a contract that takes away
legally protected rights of the user. But then, I'm also not interested in pigg diving.
-Morgan.