[sgift]

> No, more just ~10+ years of familiarity with Gary's bullshit from the homebrew scene.

Ah, so because you have a grudge you think corporate servitude is good and showing people the story that lead to it (which could lead to them drawing different conclusions) is "whitewashing".

[lcnPylGDnU4H9OF]

> Hell, these are the guys that DRMed their piracy software to password lock the Switch NAND if you tried to reverse engineer it (twice! They did the same thing on 3DS.)

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

There's no reason to think the guy who's calling out this person's shenanigans is in favor of corporate servitude. Probably they just don't like how the article frames this guy as an agreeable martyr; it seems more nuanced than that.

[noirscape]

Yeah - just so we're clear on this: I have problems with how Gary gets lionized by a lot of people but I don't think he should be in corporate servitude - he should just've been able to file for bankruptcy after he served his jailtime and that should've been it. Ideally it'd scare him straight and he could pick up his life again afterwards - maybe build up something to have a bit of a retirement again.

[cbozeman]

> he should just've been able to file for bankruptcy after he served his jailtime and that should've been it.

The purpose of criminal restitution is to punish you. You shouldn't be able to discharge a punishment.

[SOLAR_FIELDS]

I am sure a lot of people in this thread would agree with this statement taken with no extra context. The problem that a lot of people have about this specific situation is that this should never have been a criminal punishment or restitution in the first place.