Happy Anniversary!

From: Enno Rehling <enno@despammed.com>

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:38:03 +0000

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There's a comment in our code that says:
  * based on:
  * Atlantis v1.0  13 September 1993 Copyright 1993 by Russell Wallace

That means Atlantis is 11 years old on monday. Congratulations, Russell!

I'm not sure if you knew back then what a cool game you were going to
make, and how many instance of it would be running today. I don't think
you could have. Thank you from the whole lot of us who have started PBEM
gaming with it, or got encouraged to design their own PBEMs (often
because of Atlantis' deficiencies, so even that can be a virtue).

Speaking of that: Once upon a long time ago, I asked you whether it was
okay that we used our game (Eressea) to make some money on the side -
because the Atlantis license forbids it. At the time we had about 50-100
lines of the original A1 code base left, and you said we could do with
it what we liked. Thank you again for that. There are probably others
like us - do you think you could lift the restrictions in general? And
simply put the old Atlantis 1 & 2 codes in the public domain?

Thanks for the inspiration. Here's a great example that even if the code
you have is not super-elegant, you should still show it to people. I've
heard many people over the years say "I'm not going to open-source my
code, because I don't want people to see how ugly it is". Atlantis 1
isn't elegant, it's not efficient, but at least it is understandable,
and it does something that many of us love - it implements a game. I
think that that alone, the fact that it works, is good enough reason to
be proud and release he source.

Enno.
--
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a
'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

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