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[Marco Costalba]

For sure I cannot be count among the Houdini fans, there are a lot of things that I don't like about it:

1) Picking free public domain sources, modifying them and closing afterwards.

2) Being (pathetically) elusive regarding the origin of Houdini. I understand that he has some business to protect and that blatantly lie can be very dangerous in the long term (as we all have learn very well), nevertheless playing with the words every time is asked about this seems very poor to me.

But at the same time I really dont' understand why people is blaming if Houdart points to an illegal copy of his engine used in some public (or at list publicly released) list. He has all the rights to do so. Instead I see this thread spammed with silliness by clearly envy /anger people that, blinded by their mediocrity, shot at him like a way to force their own work to a level where it doesn't belong.

All in all a clear and sad example of how human things works and have worked since thousand years....