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Old 07-13-2003, 07:52 AM
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Open Source Graal?

I didn't know exactly where to put this so I put it here.

Do you think Graal should go open source? Please explain why or why not.

I lie somewhere in the middle on this issue. I definitely think that the game client and rc could benefit from more than one person coding it as more ideas and etc. could be shared. Open source has a lot of benefits, but I won't bore you with them as you probably already know them. If you don't, look on the web.

Anyway, I think it could still work as you would still have to purchase subscriptions from Graal Online to play. And as far as people putting malicious code etc in it, perhaps code would have to be submitted to someone before it is added to the client you download at graalonline and make it so that's the only one that will work online. Perhaps an offline mode could work with a non graalonline client for testing.

I can't come up with all the details, but I'm just throwing the idea in the air. It would help keep everyone from impatiently waiting for the next release as updated versions would be much more frequent.

As far as people stealing code and trying to make a "clone", well, perhaps something like the GNU general public license could be used. I dunno. Like I said, I'm just throwing the idea in the air.
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