On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Oron Peled <o...@actcom.co.il> wrote:
> On Friday, 18 בSeptember 2009 16:50:38 Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Since a typical game nowadays costs a lot of money to develop, and > requires > > the collaboration of many people, it seems unlikely that we will see many > > open-source games that are up-to-par with commercial offerings. > > Rubbish. > > I can still remember when people thought that writing small utilities (e.g: > a shell) is OK, but a real COMPILER? Out of the question... > > OK, maybe a compiler yes, but a KERNEL? Nah... > > Surely, a full desktop is out of reach of a community effort... > > Hmmmm.... these are all the easy ones. GAMES are the ultimate obstacle. > No chance to tackle it. We are doomed :-O > Not a good comparison. Expecting to have a good full game for free is like expecting to receive a full feature film for free, or a music album for free. Some do it, but most artists want to get paid for their craft. > > Shana Tova and may the source be with you. > > P.S: Shlomi, you've started debating by cross-posting to 3-4 large > mailing lists. > Cut it out! If you cannot choose the "right" mailing list for a > post, just skip it until you do. > > -- > Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 > o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron > "A billion flies _can_ be wrong - I'd rather eat lamb chops than shit." > -- Linus Torvalds on lkml > _______________________________________________ > Haifux mailing list > Haifux@haifux.org > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux >
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