well stated dude, couldn't agree more. shouts for universal (or otherwise) open sourcing are generally similar to this (from what i read...), and either they are made by people who are not developers and have no idea what developing really entails, or they are part time developers or do programming for a hobby.
the amount of time and work that goes into creating a game like myst, or any other large-scale production like this cannot be overestitmated, and open-sourcing something like this (yes, windows included) is absolutely ridiculous. if you want something to be free, do it for yourself or wait for some majorly generous person to say 'here you go.' dont beg for it, beggers cant be choosy. just stick with the copy of fortune that comes with your redhat linux.
what are you talking about? most probably no one person could fix the bugs him or herself withoutt spending hours and hours of time on it. in addition, that's very nice that you can use abbreviations such as CVS, OSS and GPL, but what you did not consider is that a software company will never release a game as open source.
well maybe that's not true... at least no company will ever release a game like this as open source, because of the time and manhours that were put into this, because after all, companies have to make some sort of cash flow to keep these great games coming out (or at least they have to break even).
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well stated dude, couldn't agree more. shouts for universal (or otherwise) open sourcing are generally similar to this (from what i read...), and either they are made by people who are not developers and have no idea what developing really entails, or they are part time developers or do programming for a hobby.
the amount of time and work that goes into creating a game like myst, or any other large-scale production like this cannot be overestitmated, and open-sourcing something like this (yes, windows included) is absolutely ridiculous. if you want something to be free, do it for yourself or wait for some majorly generous person to say 'here you go.' dont beg for it, beggers cant be choosy. just stick with the copy of fortune that comes with your redhat linux.
what are you talking about? most probably no one person could fix the bugs him or herself withoutt spending hours and hours of time on it. in addition, that's very nice that you can use abbreviations such as CVS, OSS and GPL, but what you did not consider is that a software company will never release a game as open source.
... at least no company will ever release a game like this as open source, because of the time and manhours that were put into this, because after all, companies have to make some sort of cash flow to keep these great games coming out (or at least they have to break even).
well maybe that's not true