Excavator's API has a pretty interesting minimalist design philosophy, which is refreshingly different from sgminer etc.
I would imagine its merits would become clearer as we add more features and algorithms and develop helper applications that take advantage of it.
As for raw performance, I will do everything I can to make it a top-notch OpenCL miner.
Now that I have more time and resources, I can try things that were previously impossible for me, and I am really excited about that.
so is excavator a closed source product using opensource algos? ...
yet no opensourced gpl licence adherence? ...
and you are 'happy' to work on a system that breaks the licensing agreements? ... if of course that is the case - which it seems likely it is ... though i could be completely wrong about this - i have yet to see - thats all ...
im interested to know how this free windows based miner stands up to that test - especially since nicehash can buy almost any dev they please in the current btc market ...
who owns nicehash btw? ... as much as the nicehash service is pretty awesome service by most standards - there is little information about where when and how it was established and who owns it ... i use it - and so does our company - as it IS a good system that has been created here ... but outstanding questions have yet to be answered here as those ive raised - and im more curious than i am anything else ...
be that as it may - congrats on the 'job' anyway mate ... nicehash certainly know how to pull in the good devs ...
#crysx
I really don't know what to say about the second question, but I can answer the first question in clear terms:
There would be NO GPL VIOLATIONS.
I wouldn't work for this project otherwise as I have been a GPL guy most of my life.
I will only use MIT-licensed codes and my own codes for this project.
I won't be using other people's codes that were licensed under the GPL.
MIT-licensed codes can be lawfully used in closed-source projects, and I can do pretty much anything with my own codes.
I hope this clarifies things for you.
that is great to hear ...
and also great to see that a developer of your calibre would appreciate where im coming from with this ...
it is not an attack of any sort ... just merely a disappointment of a system that i ( and many many others ) have used for a long time now - if it had been any form of violation of licensing - such as what sp does on a daily basis and makes money from ... no matter how small amount he says he makes ...
nicehash itself - regardless of fees - is a system setup so well that it has outgrown many others in a short space of time ... so to see that all is above board is a gratifying thing ...
though there is no means to measure this currently - it is taken and based on the words of reliable people like yourself ...
it clarifies much for me mate - tanx ...