[Nel] Congratulations + concerns

Sat, 30 Jun 2001 23:54:03 +0200 (MET DST)

> If it is not possible for me to use Nel
+> (and share the technical improvments I may
+> make) without being able to protect my set of game 
+> rules (which are in no way an improvment to the Nel 
+> library, being specific to my game), then you reduce
+> content to superficial things (graphics etc) and customer
+> service, which have never alone made the main interest of a game
+> for any gamer with an ounce of taste.
+>  
+> So please tell me if there is a solution or if I should
+> give up using Nel (but then again, please understand that
+> I totaly agree with the idea of sharing my improvments of
+> the library).
+
+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. :-/
+
+> P.S. I understand the passion behind the free software notion, however,
+> in the very field of MMORPG, the inability to protect your rules -
+> the spirit of your game - leaves the opportunity to a greater
+> company, if they happen to be popular, to deprive you of the pleasure
+> of running your game by draining your playerbase by using its marketing
+> power. You then end up with the opposite of the reason why you thrive
+> for free software: people make profit over your ideas because of their
+> mere initial wealth.
+
+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
+
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+ 
+                    -- Echelon must die --
+
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