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Last Chance to Help Free Ryzom
An anonymous reader writes "With the consistent influx of MMORPG's in the last few years it was obvious that many would fall by the wayside, one of those to fall is Ryzom, as you might be aware it is now going to be up for sale, and in an enterprising move for open source there is an initiative to buy Ryzom and put it under the GPL, much like Blender was in the past. However, time is short, apparently "Pledges must be made within the next few days, since the deadline for the final bid is expected sometime before Wednesday, December 19th". Already there is over 150,000 Euros donated and the FSF has donated 60,000!!
If you (like me) can see the benefit of having a fully developed MMORPG that is completely open source just donate a little, quickly!"
I'm not usually one to criticize how people spend their own hard-earned money. But given the time of year, if I had an extra few dollars to spend, it would not be to buy a game to have it open-sourced, it would be to help sick kids enjoy life.
It's like sex, except I'm having it!
Cathedral & Bazaar... oh shit, does anyone still read that crap? Oooh... wait... I think I just disrespected someone's holy book.
Ok then, I'd just like to take this opportunity to say that I'm a MMORG, and I need donations quickly to, um, make myself open. Can I have some money please?