On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:47:10 -0400, bsupnik wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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. ..or shanghaiing it with a better deal. ;o) > 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. ..there _are_ other independent server communities out there. ;o) > 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. ..in the short term, agreed. The long term is a different matter and will be decided on its own merits, like it or not. Ethics is "just" one such important merit. ;o) > So I think you guys have to decide your goals before you can evaluate > an approach! ..one of the fun things here, is how trial and error works in these meritocracies, chk out which license the successful and major "open source" projects use and see if it matches our. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
