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HE is not taking any credit away from anyone. What do you people not understand about OPEN SOURCE. It is open for everyone to use. If I take XBMC open source and make my own thing and release it for FREE for people to enjoy, who the hell cares if I credit anyone.

You don't understand open source. People release software under specific license terms, and everyone is free to use it in compliance with those terms. The MAME license found here specifically mentions that derivatives must include complete source code (second bullet point in first section). XBMC is licensed under GPL, which also requires redistribution of source with derivatives, and additionally prohibits redistribution under more restrictive and/or non-copyleft licenses. If you don't adhere to the terms of these licenses, you are not free to use the source.

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Second, you taking the side of one side of the story. BP tells a different story, and of course I am not inclined to believe either of them as the there always correct side to the story (3rd side to the story). Which we clearly are not getting.

He's clearly violating the licenses of software he builds his system on. He's taken the work of others and claimed it as his own. No-one cares how he wants to justify it.

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Gotta love the BULLING of calling me a FUCK WIT. Tell you what - grow some balls and say it to my face. I dare you. You would need a dentist and be sipping your food through a straw for 3 months. I don't like people who are TOUGH behind a screen.

Haha who's the internet tough guy now? Vas didn't make any threats - you're the one who's brought that to the table. It's really stupid to make threats like that without sizing up your opponent, and I very much doubt you've seen Vas IRL. Putting aside whether he may or may not be a compulsive liar for the moment, he's claimed at various times to:

Hold his drunk neighbour in front of an open seventh floor window and threaten to throw him out because the neighbour was keeping Vas' kids awake by yelling at his wife
Shoulder-ram a bus that cut him off when the traffic lights were in his favour hard enough that he was seeing stars for the next fifteen minutes
Punch a large dent into a Hong Kong taxi because the driver was cherry-picking
Scull a bottle of vodka, somehow get back to his hotel, collapse in a pool of his own vomit, then wake up and post about it on bannister.org

If nothing else he doesn't seem to give a flying fuck about self-preservation. Sounds like the kind of guy who'd call you a fuckwit to your face and think about the consequences later.

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I have been around the CO and VISION forums for about a year now. BP is a nice guy he is not a bully of any kind. He keeps his work to himself which he has every right to do.

He has no right to do that because "his work" is based on the work of others, and he's bound by the licenses under which they release that work.

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He also has a bunch of dedicated followers that do a lot of his work for him. There are people who spend countless hours making artwork for CO / Vision and don;t expect a single thank you. They do it for the love of their hobby. There are people that play 1000's of games and capture the video for video intros. BP does not do all this himself. But he does so a lot on his own. He does not need to CREDIT anyone.

Their choice if they don't want credit, but that doesn't change the fact that other people may.

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If you don't like CO/VISION don't download it, don;t use it. You don't need to stand up for someone else and claim BP is the bad guy. Let that author who feels hurt by a lack of a thank you to fight his own battles, he don;t need people like you doing it for him based on HIS side of the story.

Naming and shaming arsehats is perfectly acceptable behaviour. Defending them just shows that you're an arsehat sympathiser.

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I am only defending BP here because a 3rd part is attacking him, so a 3rd party should defend him. If he was attacked by the guy making the accusation which you all are so uppity about, then BP can defend himself.

Oh really? I think you're defending him in the hope that he'll notice your pious efforts and let you suck his cock one day. Or perhaps you wish you had enough talent to rip off other people's work yourself, and you're jumping to the defend your role model.

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There is no need to slander CO/VISION for the people who enjoy using it because some developer you don;t personally know claims that BP uses his OPEN SOURCE without saying THANK YOU. Your all a bunch of petty children.

It isn't slander if it's true, and a lot of people here actually are MAME contributors and/or know other MAME contributors personally. Also, we may be children, but we know the difference between "your" and "you're", and that semicolons aren't used for contractions.