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Does anybody know any S. African bazillionaires??Does anybody know any S. African bazillionaires??Posted Dec 6, 2006 10:24 UTC (Wed) by bkoz (guest, #4027)Parent article: The Free Ryzom Campaign
Maybe he likes to play games? Has a penchant for free software? Wants to make a user friendly desktop, and put the kibosh on the gamer whining?
Purchasing this software asset would seem like a perfect way to do this. Maybe some ubuntu person can forward this link to him!
Plus, it would probably cost less to buy, and employ some of the hackers, than a hypothetical monthly shipment of moon dust for his cereal.
ps. full disclosure: I've never played this game.
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It's funner to pay your own way... Posted Dec 6, 2006 11:03 UTC (Wed) by error27 (subscriber, #8346) [Link] If this works out I'm going to chip in 64 eur. If someone donated too much cash in one shot they'd steal the glory from the rest of us... :)
Does anybody know any S. African bazillionaires?? Posted Dec 6, 2006 14:03 UTC (Wed) by pbardet (guest, #22762) [Link] Since there is no Linux client, it may not be that interesting to pick up this code. I'm not really convinced that the Linux problem is a "little" one.
Does anybody know any S. African bazillionaires?? Posted Dec 6, 2006 14:17 UTC (Wed) by bkoz (guest, #4027) [Link]
Other free software companies have acquired code that didn't work on linux and then put in the effort to make it work. There seems to be some interest (but little actual work done?) in this "universe" supporting free systems at the client level. Ie, game players on linux.
In any case, the server code only runs on linux. So, that seems worthwhile.
But, I agree with the other comment. Definitely better to build a community through individual donations instead of one fat check. It looks like 76k euro raised already!
Does anybody know any S. African bazillionaires?? Posted Dec 7, 2006 7:15 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524) [Link] Since there is no Linux-client for this, or any other decent MMORPG, it would be 5 times as important to get this code.It's going to be a lot of work to port the software, but odds are it's still an order of magnitude easier than writing it from scratch -- plus here you have a well-tested proven design.
Does anybody know any S. African bazillionaires?? Posted Dec 7, 2006 14:14 UTC (Thu) by pbardet (guest, #22762) [Link] Apparently, it's not a user well proven design since the company is going bankrupt. Looks like users did not like it that much... Remember that it's the developpers themselves that started the process of saving the code.
That's the reason why I'm questionning the fact that a billionaire would be interrested by such piece of code. Especially when he's already busy with another major piece of software. But since I'm not him, I've no idea if he wants to get it or not.
I'm not questionning the fact that other people (individuals) could be interrested. Anyone can do whatever he wants of his own money.
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