The Free Ryzom campaign is unsuccessful [LWN.net]

The Free Ryzom Campaign has announced that its bid to buy the Ryzom game from its bankrupt creator was turned down by the court. "At the end, there were three offers presented, and the other two were bigger than our's. They are keeping more employees than we do, and offer more money." The project is now discussing how it could continue and achieve its goal of creating a free multi-player online game. With the energy and resources they have pulled together, they could yet do interesting things. (Thanks to Dafydd Walters).

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The Free Ryzom campaign is unsuccessful

Posted Dec 22, 2006 17:04 UTC (Fri) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

pity, tough i can understand the judge - the employees should be taken
care off as much as possible, and the open sourcing of Ryzom wouldn't be
able to give them a employed future.

what i wonder about is the extend to which the jury took the Free Ryzom
action serious, and whether he considered the Free Software aspect as
valuable? would the judge have preferred their offer over the commercial
ones if it where a financial tie?

The Free Ryzom campaign is unsuccessful

Posted Dec 22, 2006 17:21 UTC (Fri) by vondo (guest, #256) [Link]

The judge has to take the interests of the creditors as basically the only criterion. Whoever offers to pay the creditors the most will be sucessful.

I don't know about the US, but ...

Posted Jan 4, 2007 11:57 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

down here in Brasil the employees are the preferential creditors in a
bankruptcy. So, their interests come first.

The Free Ryzom campaign is unsuccessful

Posted Dec 23, 2006 15:00 UTC (Sat) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link]

It's a pitty, but an expected outcome.

This kind of things have to be done under the most secrecy or you either atract more competitors (thus making the price higher) or it's easy to beat your price (because it's public the ammount you have available).

Was a nice try, though.