WoW UI AddOn Development Policy discussion thread

[Shirik]

Please check your facts before you post them.

Originally Posted by spiel2001 Here we disagree... no API is usable outside the platform on which it is built. And API is an API, the platform is something else.

Someone here has never used WINE.

Originally Posted by spiel2001 The Glider case keeps coming up. However, it is not analogous... what Glider did modified the in-game character behavior, database content, etc. and was without question detrimental to the product it was parasitic to.

Glider did not modify a single WoW component. It merely monitored WoW's address space in memory to obtain what it needed to know, and sent commands based on that information via hardware events. This is very well outlined in the Judge's opinion posted on the case.



I will not disagree that Glider should have been (and is) illegal, nor will I disagree that it was morally wrong. However, it did not do what you said it did, and should not be advertised as such. This was one of MDY's biggest (albeit failed) defensive points.