Parsec To Be Released As Open Source

Mark Bainter writes "The Parsec creators have announced today that they are going to release the Parsec project source code early next month. From the site: 'The source release will include platform support for Win32, MacOS X, and Linux, and contain both OpenGL and Glide rendering code. It will include almost everything that has been part of the earlier LAN-Test releases, as well as our new client/server code that is already far along in development. However, it is our hope that this release will be picked up by the Parsec community for further development, supported by members of the original Parsec Project. This release will be the last official release of the original Parsec Project. It had been our intention to achieve a full-featured release including Internet game play in 2002. However, we were always doing this in our spare time, and since it is taking us too long to reach our original goal, we do not want to keep the Parsec community waiting any longer and have thus decided that it is time to change Parsec's development model to an open source approach.'"

Comments

So there you have it

[Ciderx]

This is why computer games will NEVER be open-source. How many fiascos, from the rubbish produced from the freeciv project to this (I mean, Glide, I ask you!) will it take before peopkle understand that to a great complex game will never be produced by an open source project...

My Complaint about Parsec

[SlashdotComplainer]

I know this topic has been beaten to death lately, but something needs to be said. I would be surprised if Parsec stopped to communicate and share ideas with even one of the people it regularly attacks. In the text that follows, when I quote from Parsec, I will use the word "excrement" in place of another word which is now apparently permitted in general circulation publications, and which I have edited out. Parsec is the great master of deception. In fact, I have said that to Parsec on many occasions, and I will keep on saying it until it stops trying to trick academics into abandoning the principles of scientific inquiry. I acknowledge freely and make no apology for the fact that I once considered it reasonable for crude disaffected-types to scrawl pro-gnosticism graffiti over everything. But now I know that ignorance is bliss. This may be why Parsec's myrmidons are generally all smiles.

It's a pity that two thousand years after Christ, the voices of myopic wackos like Parsec can still be heard, worse still that they're listened to, and worst of all that anyone believes them. Oddly enough, Parsec's ruses are as devoid of meaning as the squawk of an angry bluejay. Stranger still, if I didn't think Parsec would fund a vast web of shiftless slumlords, scary, fastidious boeotians, and nerdy rotters, I wouldn't say that it would have us believe that the best way to make a point is with foaming-at-the-mouth rhetoric and letters filled primarily with exclamation points. That, of course, is nonsense, total nonsense. But Parsec is surrounded by unprincipled humorless-types who parrot the same nonsense, which is why we are at a crossroads. One road leads into the light of a bright, shining future in which obstinate flakes like Parsec are completely absent. The other road leads into the darkness of interdenominationalism. The question, therefore, is: Who's driving the bus? The only clear answer to emerge from the conflicting, contradictory stances that Parsec and its understrappers take is that pretending to be a victim is Parsec's sappy attempt to remake the world to suit its own unsavory needs. Parsec's threats are based on two fundamental errors. They assume that anyone who dares to invite all the people who have been harmed by Parsec to continue to express and assert their concerns in a constructive and productive fashion can expect to suffer hair loss and tooth decay as a result. And they promote the mistaken idea that 75 million years ago, a galactic tyrant named Xenu solved the overpopulation problem of his 76-planet federation by transporting the excess people to Earth, chaining them to volcanoes, and dropping H-bombs on them. Let me conclude by saying that we who want to review the basic issues at the root of the debate will not rest until we do.

The speech

[Anonymous Coward]

Europe will not have peace until the Jewish question has been disposed of. The world has sufficient capacity for settlement, but we must finally break away from the notion that a certain percentage of the Jewish people are intended, by our dear God, to be the parasitic beneficiary of the body, and of the productive work, of other peoples.

Jewry must adapt itself to respectable constructive work, as other peoples do, or it will sooner or later succumb to a crisis of unimaginable proportions.

If the international finance-Jewry inside and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations into a world war yet again, then the outcome will not be the victory of Jewry, but rather the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!

http://www.holocaust-history.org/der-ewige-jude/ hi tler-19390130.ram