Wii Linux Project Members Steal Donations

[wraggster]

Hmm, not really involved with the Wii Linux Community but heres the news from retrothinking (http://www.retrothinking.com/headlines/wii-linux-project-members-steal-donations)


Wowza!! The news making its way through the Wii development underground is that members of Wiili, the project to bring a Wii Linux Live CD to life, have been taking money donated to the project and keeping it for themselves! Naughty, naughty!

According to one source in the Wii development community, the offending members "made off like bandits", while another added that the project had "too much blue smoke". In addition, the Wii development channel #wiidev is calling for a boycott towards the Wiili project.

UPDATE: The project's site, WIILI.ORG, is back up, They have stated there has been "Lots of vandalism. We are protecting all pages so now only registered users can edit." Whatever that may mean.

Scene drama strikes again

[ExcruciationX]

Insane...

[UchihaSasuke]

........... That just let me speechless

[SwordOfZork]

Wheres the proof? I keep hearing accusations of this, but no one can provide proof.

[quzar]

How is it theft if you donate to them exactly? Was this money supposed to go to feed starving wiis or something?

[SwordOfZork]

How is it theft if you donate to them exactly? Was this money supposed to go to feed starving wiis or something?

"Theft" or donation money is pretty simple:

Usually when you donate to projects like this, the money is put into bandwidth costs of the website, and purchasing hardware and software necessary for the coders to complete the project. Its generally understood that ALL the donation money will be going towards the project in one way or another.

By saying the money was "stolen" people are suggesting that the project took the donation money, and put it in their own pockets to buy things for themselves that were completely unrelated, and won't benefit the project at all.

[quzar]

"Theft" or donation money is pretty simple:

Usually when you donate to projects like this, the money is put into bandwidth costs of the website, and purchasing hardware and software necessary for the coders to complete the project. Its generally understood that ALL the donation money will be going towards the project in one way or another.

By saying the money was "stolen" people are suggesting that the project took the donation money, and put it in their own pockets to buy things for themselves that were completely unrelated, and won't benefit the project at all.

It benefits the project because they are working on it and it makes them happy. Most devs keep a donation thing, and it's not specifically a "help me buy more hardware" thing, it's like a tip jar. Unless there was some sort of specific thing where they stated the money was going towards the purchase of hardware and software, I see absolutely nothing wrong with this.

[skater9269]

on the site it said they were going to switch to a new server with it and it had a goal and timline.