Many thanks. Any ideas for how to make (a little) money off of a town newspaper? <g>
-- IV
Oliver White wrote:
>
> Ignacio Valdes wrote:
>
> > Oliver, can you post your views below to the article on this subject on
>LinuxMedNews? http://www.linuxmednews.com/linuxmednews/975943604/index_html
> > My thoughts exactly, and very much appreciated.
> > -- IV
>
> Done.
>
> Tim:
>
> If you'd like some help learning how to manage a free software project, myself and
>Bryce Harrington have been discussing working with other projects to teach them a
>little of what we've learnt developing
> the WorldForge project. We've been developing systems for Massively Multiplayer
>Online Roleplaying Games, perhaps a trivial matter compared to fixing the mess that
>medical IT is in, but still a major
> feat of engineering, involving the contributions of hundreds over the last 2 years.
>We feel we'll soon be in a position to take on the proprietary solutions, but will be
>even happier to have major
> commercial projects using our software. Nobody buys the Everquest client software
>for it's own sake, right?
>
> Our project involves the contribution, not just of code, but of artwork, documents,
>stories, rulesets and project support functions. Licencing has been a major issue,
>especially with our artists who are
> of a vastly different culture to our coders. However, we've settled on free licences
>for that component of the project too. However, we're not here to dictate your
>licencing conditions. We just like to
> help the community, again not simply for altruistic reasons but with appreciation
>for the network effects that contributes to the rise of free software itself.
>
> But we do like to help for the sake of altruism too. ;-)
>
> Have fun, it's important!
>
> --
> Oliver White
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