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kimostoday at 1:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

It works on Windows by essentially rooting the machine. MS holds control of a bunch of stuff because they hold the signing keys. It’s fundamentally incompatible with open source.


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tetetoday at 1:57 PM

And it still doesn't prevent cheating.

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embedding-shapetoday at 1:58 PM

> It’s fundamentally incompatible with open source

Yeah, I mean why would they open source their anti-cheats, would defeat the purpose, wouldn't it?

Not sure why you bring up OSS here, it isn't relevant in the least, plenty of non-OSS runs on Linux even though Linux and more is OSS.

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