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Fuck Gary Bowser and Team Xecuter in general, he doesn’t deserve the punishment he got but I feel no sympathy for him.
Read up on how they stole GPL’d code from other Switch hackers for their closed source SX OS, and then had the fucking nerve to charge for it.
Piracy is one thing, but what they did hurt the Switch hacking scene, for their own profit.
I don't know, if I put out GPL software, I wouldn't give a fuck if it got used to fuck over Nintendo without following all the GPL nonsense. They took the legal risk of going up against Nintendo, I sure as hell didn't take any risk writing code. Them profiting a bit isn't the end of the world. No one was going to make any money staying within legal limits anyway, nothing was "stolen".
Edit: Just to be clear, all I know about Bowser is based on the parent comment. Maybe he's a bigger POS than the example given but, from that, doesn't seem like a major villain.
SX OS has anti-piracy measures in place which literally brick your switch.