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I sent him a email back in 2011 asking about a missing C++ header file in his FF3SE source code and had no idea how C++ work or what was a header file so I basically looked stupid and never got an answer :/

lol, these guys are too slick, careful with your questions. Reminds me of how imzogelmo only comments if the code is stupid and assassin bashes people for not referencing their excerpts. It's tough being these smart guys I guess.

I respect hacker wanting to keep some food for their own webpages

Maybe it's just the terminology here but this kind of view is really 90s old school to me. I feel like the internet is all about mirroring and having information available all around at different locations in different contexts. If we consider the RotDS webpage as an example, it has no unique (unmirrored) content, but that doesn't make it pointless. If not for the RotDS webpage we would have to go to romhacking.net to get the ips, youtube.com to watch the videos and ff6hacking.com for latest news etc. If Gi Nattack would not mirror stuff at these sites he would just be reducing exposure and accessibility. I am trying to make the point; We are in the early years of the information age and the way we use the internet is rapidly changing. This results in older ideologies such as copyright or distribution being constantly out of date in such a fast paced environment. I feel we should try to rely less on older ideals and leave it up to the integrity of the internet culture we participate in to have suitable morality.

Sorry to be so heated on this topic and ofcourse I take respectful copyright notices literally. Your interpretation of what they probably meant is also probably correct.

Finally Evil Peer/Geiger is the same person I think.

Well you're right on that I think. I remembered this when I was looking up the links, then I thought "but they are different personas in my mind" so I left them separated. Evil Peer is an FF6 fanatic while geiger is an incredible reverse engineer. This reminds me of Plato and Socrates where many people say/think Plato made up Socrates as a character to represent an ideal. This is based on the fact that Socrates never wrote anything down and Plato wrote most (if not all) that is known about Socrates. So Plato is at least responsible for the representation of Socrates. But I feel this doesn't matter at all, Plato and Socrates are different personas with different ideals, just like Evil Peer and geiger. Whether one person or two are responsible is beside the point, these are two entities.

Hope this isn't too much rambling. Thanks for keeping the conversation going Madsiur.