Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 04, 2004 11:05 PM
>>About making a living from Open Source, what do you propose the gaming industry to sell? Support?
how about selling games. Nobody ever said anything about making the game itself open source, just the engine code that drives the game. How hard could that be? they already are making their living selling games.
So id opens its engine, and drops some employees. Then those companies who were paying id great piles of money to develop the engine hire those employees, and some new startups add some new developers to the collection. We have more developers PAID to work on the game engine, and now all of the companies have to pay less than they did before, because the sales overhead to sell the engine to other game companies is gone. Welcome to the world of co-operative engeneering.
What's more, the engine would probably be ported to more platforms(game machines, linux, etc.) so that there would be an even larger market for games based on that game engine.
PS. LGPL would probably be better than GPL for the game engine. This would definately allow the game itself to be closed source. Maybe your GPL zealot is looking for more games to spend money on. How is that a "freebie"?
PPS. this was the logic that the Japanese auto makers used some 20-30 years ago to invade the U.S. auto market. It is true that it nearly ruined the US auto makers, before they finally figured out how to work this system.(some did die -- remember AMC?) I suppose that now a) all cars are free, b) all the auto workers and designers and engeneers have to volunteer their time and c) there are no financially solvent auto makers.
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Re:Just another GPL zealot looking for freebies.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 04, 2004 11:05 PMhow about selling games. Nobody ever said anything about making the game itself open source, just the engine code that drives the game. How hard could that be? they already are making their living selling games.
So id opens its engine, and drops some employees. Then those companies who were paying id great piles of money to develop the engine hire those employees, and some new startups add some new developers to the collection. We have more developers PAID to work on the game engine, and now all of the companies have to pay less than they did before, because the sales overhead to sell the engine to other game companies is gone. Welcome to the world of co-operative engeneering.
What's more, the engine would probably be ported to more platforms(game machines, linux, etc.) so that there would be an even larger market for games based on that game engine.
PS. LGPL would probably be better than GPL for the game engine. This would definately allow the game itself to be closed source. Maybe your GPL zealot is looking for more games to spend money on. How is that a "freebie"?
PPS. this was the logic that the Japanese auto makers used some 20-30 years ago to invade the U.S. auto market. It is true that it nearly ruined the US auto makers, before they finally figured out how to work this system.(some did die -- remember AMC?) I suppose that now a) all cars are free, b) all the auto workers and designers and engeneers have to volunteer their time and c) there are no financially solvent auto makers.
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