Hi Y'all, GWMobile wrote: > Why not just duplicate vatsim with independent GPL programming?
I think the point of VATSIM (and IVAO) is that they are existing communities with user bases that show up on a regular basis. If you wrote a pilot client for FG you could then go fly online on any given night and be pretty sure you'd have live ATC, without convincing anyone else to get involved, because you'd be joining an existing community. That's a double-edged sword...if you don't like VATSIM's admin/moderator policy or its management or dev policy, well, it already exists so you wouldn't have the kind of influence that you get from starting things on the ground floor. On the other hand, it's a lot less work to write a client for FG than to write a client, server, ATC client, possibly write clients for other flight sims to get higher user numbers, write the protocols, find a VoIP lib, and also get the servers and donated bandwidth and then convince a few thousand people to use the service on a regular basis. So I think you guys have to decide your goals before you can evaluate an approach! *Cheers* Ben -- Scenery Home Page: http://scenery.x-plane.com/ Scenery blog: http://xplanescenery.blogspot.com/ Plugin SDK: http://www.xsquawkbox.net/xpsdk/ Scenery mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
