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Why is runuo source code closed?
Why is runuo source code closed?
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altiara
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Why are people so obsessed with open-source emus? The Sphere team gets this question all the time.
If you want an open-source emu, there are a few out there. Not every emu needs to be open-source.
If you want an open-source emu, there are a few out there. Not every emu needs to be open-source.
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altiara
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Heh...yeah, I noticed.
It's stuff like that which caused me to disable signatures on our boards. No matter how many times I told people not to use banners in their sigs or advertise their shards in their sigs, I had to end up modifying people's signatures several times a day. It just wasn't worth it.
Sorry...back to the original topic -- There are plenty of reasons to keep a project closed source. As someone mentioned earlier, you might end up with a zillion variants out there. Let's say a program called "foo" was open-source. Then somebody decided to create a variant called "foobar". Guess where people running "foobar" would invariably come for support? Yep....to the "foo" site. Then they'd whine when the "foo" team told them to go to the "foobar" site. There are always people out there that can't figure out where they should be going for help.
I could list the other wonders of closed-source software, but I won't at the moment.
I'll just mention one other thing on this subject right now. For a long time, I would get requests, and frequently demands to make Axis open source. I wonder why people made these requests, because it certainly wasn't so that they could help with the development of Axis. In the 8 months that Axis has been open-sourced, I've had actual source contributions from a total of 3 people. Only one of those people actually submitted more than 50 lines of code.
It's stuff like that which caused me to disable signatures on our boards. No matter how many times I told people not to use banners in their sigs or advertise their shards in their sigs, I had to end up modifying people's signatures several times a day. It just wasn't worth it.
Sorry...back to the original topic -- There are plenty of reasons to keep a project closed source. As someone mentioned earlier, you might end up with a zillion variants out there. Let's say a program called "foo" was open-source. Then somebody decided to create a variant called "foobar". Guess where people running "foobar" would invariably come for support? Yep....to the "foo" site. Then they'd whine when the "foo" team told them to go to the "foobar" site. There are always people out there that can't figure out where they should be going for help.
I could list the other wonders of closed-source software, but I won't at the moment.
I'll just mention one other thing on this subject right now. For a long time, I would get requests, and frequently demands to make Axis open source. I wonder why people made these requests, because it certainly wasn't so that they could help with the development of Axis. In the 8 months that Axis has been open-sourced, I've had actual source contributions from a total of 3 people. Only one of those people actually submitted more than 50 lines of code.
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Lost User
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Im happy that RUN UO is closed-source...... less things for me to break =\
Zippy
Razor Creator
Topics like this are pointless, it's closed source because thats the way we want it, and thats all you need to know.
Also, even though your sig is in jest it's VERY annoying (I'm deleting it right now), do NOT abuse the signatures. I don't care what ytou put in there, banner ads or whatever, so long as they aren't huge, offensive, or cause temporary blindness.
Also, even though your sig is in jest it's VERY annoying (I'm deleting it right now), do NOT abuse the signatures. I don't care what ytou put in there, banner ads or whatever, so long as they aren't huge, offensive, or cause temporary blindness.
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Lost User
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Thanks!
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Im not saying make it open source and run a CVS so everyone can code, but putting the source for download is not bad.
Take a look at #dev, it is open source and it is good, productive
Vhaldir
Sorceror
Who cares. It's their project, they don't want it open source. Let it drop... this is only about the 30th time someone has posted a thread like this..
Obviously, if they wanted it to be open source, they'd make it open source.
I think the devs here are experienced enough and set in their opinion that even repeditive requests for opening the source will be IGNORED
Furthermore.. the redundancy is ANNOYING!
Obviously, if they wanted it to be open source, they'd make it open source.
I think the devs here are experienced enough and set in their opinion that even repeditive requests for opening the source will be IGNORED
Furthermore.. the redundancy is ANNOYING!
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Chaos
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LOL, Altiara had the best point here. I bet about 500 people demanded that Axis be open source. 8 months its been open source, and 3 people sent code to help the Axis program? LOL.
Sounds like UOX v95 when I was working on it with EviLDeD, Ab, and Zippy. I remember how many people pmed me, IMed me, ICQed me, etc about how wrong it is to keep the source code closed.
Then we released the code, and everyone was pissed because it wasnt finished. Funny thing is, users arent happy when the source is closed, then they arent happy when its open.
Sounds like UOX v95 when I was working on it with EviLDeD, Ab, and Zippy. I remember how many people pmed me, IMed me, ICQed me, etc about how wrong it is to keep the source code closed.
Then we released the code, and everyone was pissed because it wasnt finished. Funny thing is, users arent happy when the source is closed, then they arent happy when its open.