It is interesting to see that Free Software is apparently not an option for anyone. People at the GDC talk about giving their players the ability to create things. They should realize that it works best when you don't actually grant the user a controled creation tool. By sharing the software, releasing it under a Free Software license, people will come up with creative ways of doing things and the game will evolve. I guess this concept is some kind of alien to those people immersed 24/7 in a proprietary software culture. Well, that gives a nice competitive advantage to the small initiatives such as www.crystalspace.org or www.nevrax.org. Internet was built on Free Software, virtual universes will truly emerge on the basis of Free Software.
I find remarkable that the article is absolutely not related to Free Software. Of course you need to be an expert to know what is Free Software and what is not in the applications said to run under GNU/Linux. The random reader will have a hard time to find out.
More disturbing is the fact that if you s/Linux/Solaris/ in the whole article, it reads perfectly well. I was under the impression that GNU/Linux was developped in a spirit that is revolutionary. Apparently that spirit was lost somewhere.
Imagine a text about democracy where you could s/democracy/monarchy/ and it makes sense. One would quickly conclude that the text is not really about democracy and really talks about monarchy. Likewise the article says Linux everywhere but is really about proprietary software, proprietary solutions and a proprietary state of mind.
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It is interesting to see that Free Software is apparently not an option for anyone. People at the GDC talk about giving their players the ability to create things. They should realize that it works best when you don't actually grant the user a controled creation tool. By sharing the software, releasing it under a Free Software license, people will come up with creative ways of doing things and the game will evolve. I guess this concept is some kind of alien to those people immersed 24/7 in a proprietary software culture. Well, that gives a nice competitive advantage to the small initiatives such as www.crystalspace.org or www.nevrax.org. Internet was built on Free Software, virtual universes will truly emerge on the basis of Free Software.
I find remarkable that the article is absolutely not related to Free Software. Of course you need to be an expert to know what is Free Software and what is not in the applications said to run under GNU/Linux. The random reader will have a hard time to find out. More disturbing is the fact that if you s/Linux/Solaris/ in the whole article, it reads perfectly well. I was under the impression that GNU/Linux was developped in a spirit that is revolutionary. Apparently that spirit was lost somewhere. Imagine a text about democracy where you could s/democracy/monarchy/ and it makes sense. One would quickly conclude that the text is not really about democracy and really talks about monarchy. Likewise the article says Linux everywhere but is really about proprietary software, proprietary solutions and a proprietary state of mind.