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MMORPG Ryzom Released Under AGPL

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the blizzard-must-be-shaking-in-their-mansions dept.

acemtp writes "Breakthrough for Free Software gaming. Ryzom announces full release of source code and artwork, and a partnership with the Free Software Foundation to host a repository of the game's artistic assets."

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  1. coming soon! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Coming soon to the web: the first MMO with more developers than players!

  2. Re:They shouldn't have bothered. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You mean like gcc, bash, make, etc? ;-)

    And the FSF's position seems like some strange ideology... until you actually get burned in the proprietary world. Then a lot of what they're saying starts to make a lot of very practical sense, in a very real world way, very quickly.

  3. Re:Free =/= Fun by sznupi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OTOH sizeable number of people would never call WoW "fun".

    Heck, "free" could as well be actually an impediment - who knows how many people value their MMORPG, at least partially (but enough for it to be significant), because it costs them.

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