Re: spiral arm II

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:31:18 +0000

>>Firstly, if you were still making money from it then you wouldn't release
it. If you *weren't* making money from it, how would they?<<

There are so many, many answers to that...

Like I said at the beginning, I dont subscribe to the open-source idea.  I know
many do.  That's their choice.  There's no point in arguing it here, though, as
its one of those discussions that just go on and on.

>>Seconly, "plain ruin"? Please explain. There are competent coders other than
Duncan. ;-)   <<

Maybe there are, and maybe there aren't. <grin>

>>Thirdly, I think you're maybe missing the fact that improvements they made
could be included back into your tree.<<

Im not at all.  I know the benefits of open source, I just don't think they
make it worth giving code I own out for public use.

>>Which is actually very close to the "make money from the service" model free
software advocates always, well, advocate. ;-)  <<

Yeah, but if only I own it, only I can make money from it. <grin>  to be fair,
I gave the engine to Justin Parsler, who has made a living out of it for a
couple of years now.  But I didn't give him the code.

>> Still curious as to if there are more complex
reasons than "It's mine". Not that there have to be, mind. ')  <<

A few, perhaps, but "its mine" is certainly the leading reason.  Perhaps if I
had a funny little game that was clearly coded I might give out the code.  I
dont know.  But the majority of the code I own is neXus, which I reckon is
worth a pretty large sum were I ever to sell it, so giving it out isn't likely.
<g>

Steve T.

References

Re: spiral arm II
Paul Walker <usenet@blacksun.org.uk>
Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:06:55 +0000