Apparently because I understand Covert's reasoning entirely that makes me a fanboy rager. Nice logic you kids are having there.
Understanding the reasoning is entirely irrelevant. That's where these whole discussions end up in debates and then the debates get ugly. There's a right way and a wrong way to do things. If you steal half my sandwich at lunch, I'm not legally entitled to punch you in the face. That, of course, was an analogy, and according to rule #17 of "How to Argue Poorly on the Internet", someone previously uninvolved in the conversation must now enter the discussion to split hairs over the analogy because they don't fully understand what an analogy is.
Two wrongs don't make a right. Mod Author A is fully entitled to create and post asinine restrictions on permissions. Nobody can successfully argue against that. And the options for those interested in using the mod in any capacity are to respect those asinine restrictions or not use the mod. See? We're on the same page. I understand what you're saying. So if Mod Pack Team 1 doesn't comply with the conditions set down by those restrictions, they're in the wrong. Doesn't matter how retarded those restrictions are. It's totally irrelevant. The conditions exist as set down by the person with the IP rights on the mod in question, meaning they have every right to apply those restrictions. Even if they're really, really stupid restrictions.
With me so far? This is sort of where things like this go to shit, because if I had approached this any differently, 9 times out of 10 someone making a post such as yours would have continued the argument under the premise that I don't understand the reasoning and I don't understand what's going on but if I did, I'd agree. I'd have to. Logic dictates. If I knew what you knew, 1 + 1 would naturally equate to 2 in the minds of any sane person. Right?
Of course. And for that same reason, no sane person would say the Technic crew is in the right for using mods that they don't have permission to use, especially after all the nonsense they've been through.
But you know what doesn't help the situation? When the community defends poor behavior in response to poor behavior. That's not how the world works. (Actually, sometimes it does work that way, and that's why we still have standing armies and police/legal structures, but you get the point.) That's how certain other mod authors still enjoy a contentious measure of popularity. People who don't think things through defending wrong behavior because it was in response to wrong behavior. In the event of a conflict, at least one party to the conflict has to have the bawls to stand up and behave like an adult in order to bring about a definite end to the conflict. Mod Author A blustering on Mod Pack 1's forums like an uber-dork 14 year old does not qualify as acting as an adult. Doesn't matter if he's right in his claims Mod Pack Team 1 lacks permission to use his mod. Doesn't matter one damn bit. He's being a juvenile twunt about it, and he's making things worse. He's setting himself up to be the guy getting hauled out of the lunch room in handcuffs while the guy with the black eye is enjoying half a sammich.
Cue second iteration of rule #17.
There are certain ways to resolve conflicts that don't involve being a juvenile dork stamping your feet and pointing to your draconian rules like anyone but you cares. Even if you're right, it's still the wrong way to fix the problem. If these dumbass mod authors would just learn how to resolve these things like adults, they wouldn't polarize half the community to support the Technic team. Imagine if half the people who currently support the Technic team stood up and told them to knock it off with ignoring permissions, and the remaining half realized they were just badly outnumbered and mostly faded into the background. Do you think that would be more effective in motivating the Technic team to be a little more dilligent? Or is juvenile feuding your preferred method of dealing with these things? Because that's sort of the problem...when you've got a grievance and you handle it with what amounts to a public temper tantrum, people who might normally back you denounce your entire position because of your behavior and in matters such as this, the voice of the community as a whole carries much more weight than the voice of a socially inept mod dev.
