Ryzom source released as free software
Ryzom source released as free software
Posted May 6, 2010 15:48 UTC (Thu) by RCL (guest, #63264)In reply to: Ryzom source released as free software by realnc
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You open your code either because you believe you will increase its quality by inviting more developers to work on it or because you believe in FSF freedoms that users of your programs can tinker with it. That's it.
According to your definition, neither Red Hat, nor Mozilla, nor id Software (with its Quake) aren't "open source friendly".
That's intellectual communism.
Posted May 6, 2010 16:12 UTC (Thu)
by realnc (guest, #60393)
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What they did is provide an open source engine for you to implement your own MMORPG. Props to them for that. But there are enough other such engines out there, this is nothing special. But they did not open source Ryzom itself. And they shouldn't claim that they did.
I hope my point is more obvious now.
Posted May 6, 2010 16:21 UTC (Thu)
by rahvin (guest, #16953)
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Seriously, are you deliberately spreading FUD or what?
Posted May 6, 2010 17:19 UTC (Thu)
by realnc (guest, #60393)
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You don't know much about Ryzom and MMORPGs, do you? No, I didn't think so. Doing what you suggest would take years. And when you finally do it, you won't have Ryzom. You will have a Ryzom *clone*. And probably not a perfect re-creation of Ryzom anyway.
Yeah, Ryzom is now free. Not! Ryzom is NOT free. It's engine is. The game itself is not. How difficult is this for you to understand? If Ryzom were free, I would not need to spend 5 years to recreate Ryzom.
Also, the term FUD seems to be used quite liberally here. Perhaps you should first grasp what I'm saying before resorting to accusations of malevolent objectives.
Posted May 7, 2010 11:47 UTC (Fri)
by sorpigal (guest, #36106)
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Is it a 3D engine? Is it the system of character and skill development? Is it a game client? Is it a set of maps? Is it a set of graphics?
You're saying it is intrinsically all of these things but I don't think it's dishonest to say that it isn't. In some sense "Ryzom" is in fact open source. The maps aren't, but that's okay.
Posted May 6, 2010 16:34 UTC (Thu)
by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)
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Generally when someone says something and your first attempt to parse their utterance is nonsensical you should try again. If I say "I have all the James Bond cars, I keep them in a shoebox" this rule allows you to strike out the possibility that I literally own all the cars from the James Bond movies, that they are small enough to fit in a shoebox, that I believe I inhabit a fictional universe etc. and reach the conclusion that I am speaking of toy or scale model cars. It's a helpful technique - and you won't find yourself so often arguing vociferously about nothing.
Posted May 6, 2010 17:17 UTC (Thu)
by kragil (guest, #34373)
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Posted May 7, 2010 8:40 UTC (Fri)
by ctg (guest, #3459)
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It's completely against the spirit of having my cake and eat it, something for nothing, a great big free lunch, freeloading etc.
Ryzom source released as free software
Ryzom source released as free software
Ryzom source released as free software
Ryzom source released as free software
Ryzom source released as free software
Ryzom source released as free software
Ryzom source released as free software