Open source would not work on the Graal the way it works in the rest of the technology world. Graal is not a wide market; operating systems, IDEs, web applications, etc. are all wide markets. On an open source Graal, I would be making a server that's bound to go to Classic. Somebody else would notice, and steal the systems I've made and claim them for themselves. Now, I have to spend even longer creating something better each time my entire server's systems are stolen. The stolen systems wouldn't be "crap copies", because the server where they originated from wouldn't have been released; you wouldn't ever know the difference.
That's not how open source works. If you thinks that's the goal of open source, you've really missed the point Richard Stallman was trying to make. Most open source software is released when its finished, and the goal is that people will improve that software, not to have other people copy the software and brand it as their own.
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Originally Posted by Loriel
Making playerworld creation easier is a good thing.
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There's a difference between making a playerworld and making a clone. You don't seem to be able to understand this.
07-28-2008, 08:08 PM
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