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Offline Fury

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StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
on: April 22, 2009, 06:52:04 am
http://www.star-force.com/press_room/news/index.php?news=2404
StarForce was kind enough to provide us a questionnaire as well: http://www.star-force.com/opros/
 

Offline Solatar

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Re: StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
Reply #1 on: April 22, 2009, 06:25:57 pm
...do they know how Linux works? The whole most-people-use-entirely-open-source-stuff-and-don't-buy-software thing?

As in...is there really a market for this on the Linux platform?

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We guarantee that no information getting from this questionnaire won`t be used by the third party or used in any goals except this questionnaire`s goals.

So every bit of information you give them is guaranteed to be used by third parties?
 

Offline Kosh

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Re: StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
Reply #2 on: April 23, 2009, 01:17:10 am
It will be a cold day in hell before I let anything with starforce corrupt my computer.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Grizzly

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Re: StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
Reply #3 on: April 23, 2009, 02:36:33 pm
Quote from: Kosh on April 23, 2009, 01:17:10 am
It will be a cold day in hell before I let anything with starforce corrupt my computer.

As it happens, hell just got frozen over.
 

Offline Mikes

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Re: StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
Reply #4 on: April 23, 2009, 02:45:52 pm
Starforce is still alive ?

Must be some publishers out there that haven't learned their lesson yet.

Just vote with your wallet as before, nothing new here, except that Linux/Mac users get to boycott them now too.

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Re: StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
Reply #5 on: April 23, 2009, 04:48:46 pm
Quote from: Solatar on April 22, 2009, 06:25:57 pm
...do they know how Linux works? The whole most-people-use-entirely-open-source-stuff-and-don't-buy-software thing?

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Re: StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
Reply #6 on: April 24, 2009, 01:12:05 pm
I just wonder what they're going to use it for? There are plenty of games available for Linux, and if I want to do serious gaming I go over to my Windows partition anyway.

I just can't think of any kind of software I would need to BUY for Linux. I use OpenOffice, free programs, and Finale 2008 works on Wine.
 

Offline Tyrian

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Re: StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
Reply #7 on: April 24, 2009, 05:02:07 pm
*Cringe* *Twitch* Not these guys again.  I actually had a CD drive torched by StarForce. 

But I guess my question is the same as everyone else's:  Why?  The only thing I know of that could use StarForce on a Linux environment is NX4, yet they already have license controls in place and those are proprietary...
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Offline Kosh

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Re: StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
Reply #8 on: April 24, 2009, 08:09:06 pm
Quote from: -Joshua- on April 23, 2009, 02:36:33 pm
Quote from: Kosh on April 23, 2009, 01:17:10 am
It will be a cold day in hell before I let anything with starforce corrupt my computer.

As it happens, hell just got frozen over.

If it isn't at absolute zero it isn't cold enough.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Re: StarForce protection for Linux and MacOS
Reply #9 on: April 24, 2009, 09:18:51 pm
I used to have StarForce because of TrackMania, but now I've updated it to United Forever, it apparently has been removed. Personally I haven't had any trouble with it, but then I've not had any trouble with DRM. :p
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