On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 16:28 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2012 3:33 PM, "Aidan Gauland" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I need to install Hamachi to connect to my friend's Minecraft server
> 
> You mean the VPN client from logmein.com?

Yes, that thing.

> There's a mention on the ArchWiki that this client is fully closed.
> But so is Minecraft itself (yes, one day they will open it; I believe
> that promise but I'm not holding my breath! It's too popular at the
> moment). So you will have to decide on a pragmatic basis -- can you
> get your friend to run a more open solution (ssh, OpenVPN, whatever)
> or do you want to get on his server more than you want to be Free? :-)

I don't mind closed-source games.  He's using Hamachi because it's
easier than mucking with port forwarding.  (He uses it for other reasons
for other games, too, though.)

--Aidan

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