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diff --git a/pipermail/nel/2001-June/000449.html b/pipermail/nel/2001-June/000449.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f5a08082 --- /dev/null +++ b/pipermail/nel/2001-June/000449.html @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Nel] Congratulations + concerns</TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:x5101920%40fedro.ugr.es"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="000444.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="000445.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Nel] Congratulations + concerns</H1> + <B>x5101920@fedro.ugr.es</B> + <A HREF="mailto:x5101920%40fedro.ugr.es" + TITLE="[Nel] Congratulations + concerns">x5101920@fedro.ugr.es</A><BR> + <I>Sat, 30 Jun 2001 23:54:03 +0200 (MET DST)</I> + <P><UL> + <LI> Previous message: <A HREF="000444.html">[Nel] Congratulations + concerns</A></li> + <LI> Next message: <A HREF="000445.html">[Nel] Congratulations + concerns</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#449">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#449">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#449">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#449">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>><i> If it is not possible for me to use Nel +</I>><i> (and share the technical improvments I may +</I>><i> make) without being able to protect my set of game +</I>><i> rules (which are in no way an improvment to the Nel +</I>><i> library, being specific to my game), then you reduce +</I>><i> content to superficial things (graphics etc) and customer +</I>><i> service, which have never alone made the main interest of a game +</I>><i> for any gamer with an ounce of taste. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So please tell me if there is a solution or if I should +</I>><i> give up using Nel (but then again, please understand that +</I>><i> I totaly agree with the idea of sharing my improvments of +</I>><i> the library). +</I> +I am in no way related to Nel. +This is just my opinion as contributor of Open Source. + +But I think that you should fix the ethical conflict between using "others" GPL +code and asking them to protect "your" right for not sharing yours. :-/ + +><i> P.S. I understand the passion behind the free software notion, however, +</I>><i> in the very field of MMORPG, the inability to protect your rules - +</I>><i> the spirit of your game - leaves the opportunity to a greater +</I>><i> company, if they happen to be popular, to deprive you of the pleasure +</I>><i> of running your game by draining your playerbase by using its marketing +</I>><i> power. You then end up with the opposite of the reason why you thrive +</I>><i> for free software: people make profit over your ideas because of their +</I>><i> mere initial wealth. +</I> +Once a american president, perhaps Abraham Lincon, told that a nation that give +away freedom to get security deserver nor freedom neither security. + +So this apply to Open Source, I think that freedom is soooo good that it worth +to risk to that to happen. And imagine that the case you told happen... you +would have shown world how good is Open Source that a Lame enterprise has decide +to use your code to make their game. + +Regards. + +[ Above is just my opinion, I don't ask you to understand it, not to agree with +me... ] + + + Miguel Angel Blanch Lardin + +nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb iran irak korea cuba +Ala yihad mosad kgb free freedom human rights yugoslavia kosovo ebola dna + + -- Echelon must die -- + +</pre> + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI> Previous message: <A HREF="000444.html">[Nel] Congratulations + concerns</A></li> + <LI> Next message: <A HREF="000445.html">[Nel] Congratulations + concerns</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#449">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#449">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#449">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#449">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> +</body></html> |