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Reply #15 Posted on: October 01, 2014, 07:56:22 pm |
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Just that your following sentence seemed to change the focus of death from yourself to ENIGMA instead. Now that we have cleared that up - Josh, this is too good an offer to refuse! Close it up - LMAO!
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lonewolff
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Reply #17 Posted on: October 01, 2014, 08:34:03 pm |
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^^ Feature request submitted. (If we don't like the new feature, we can always roll it back in a week or so )
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lonewolff
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Reply #18 Posted on: October 01, 2014, 09:53:38 pm |
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Seriously though, what would be wrong with a free 'closed source' game engine (with a tight knit passionate dev team)? (Just thinking out loud )
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Reply #19 Posted on: October 01, 2014, 10:07:56 pm |
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sent after us. Being a company, on the other hand, means that we have to really visually differentiate ourselves from our competitor to make it clear that we're not just trying to steal their money.
GML has no copyright, neither can an IDE, so from what I understand you could be similar in IDE and GML and be ok, otherwise ENIGMA would have been asked to C&D, regardless of whether it is open source or not.......even more reason that it is FREE If you could go after someone due to a similar interface, there would be millions of lawsuits daily lol! All that said, my vision was to provide this product free-of-cost and tinker-friendly. This vision continues to be the driving source of the project, and is not compatible with the closed-source model.
Yeah you got a good point there. Unfortunately certain things were probably not done correctly and orderly, and it has piled up to a point where certain things would require major work to be fixed and nobody has enough time for the major stuff, short of someone being available full time and devoted to it, so both sides have good and bad. SO a new project from scratch would require a solid 4 years MINIMUM if not more So why not make the best of what we have instead
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Reply #21 Posted on: October 01, 2014, 10:18:20 pm |
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It's more like this: FOSS: Proprietary: Nicely written up here: In the Beginning Was the Command Line (See the section "MGBs, TANKS, AND BATMOBILES")
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Reply #22 Posted on: October 01, 2014, 10:22:01 pm |
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If you could go after someone due to a similar interface, there would be millions of lawsuits daily lol! Yes it's called you can't patent the look and feel of an application, and a group of people called SCOTUS will uphold it, R.I.P. Steve Jobs.
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I think it was Leonardo da Vinci who once said something along the lines of "If you build the robots, they will make games." or something to that effect.
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Reply #23 Posted on: October 02, 2014, 02:25:50 am |
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Do you mean ugly and 'not-fit for purpose'? Then I guess we agree Look at Linux at the moment. A year ago it would have been considered a 'tank'. But then someone realised they didn't add the hatch at the top. And people are now crapping themselves as the attackers keep dropping grenades in the top. People can't get out fast enough now.
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Reply #24 Posted on: October 02, 2014, 02:41:16 am |
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Do you mean ugly and 'not-fit for purpose'?
Then I guess we agree
Really? Do you use a smartphone? Unless you have one of the last released with windows or an iPhone most of the market is coped by android, same in the tablets. Many of the big studios in Hollywood disagree with you. Also NASA and Wall Street. And many countries who have made the switch to Linux for their government computers and systems. Plus every time you use the web you are more likely than not using Linux, that's why the slash is like this / and not like in windows \. I guess before making such comment you already tried every FOSS application out there?
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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx
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Reply #27 Posted on: October 02, 2014, 03:42:11 am |
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Sucks to be an Aussie then. In Europe several countries have extensive programs to use free software. Some succeed, some fail. Many companies and most research institutions also use FOSS.
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Reply #28 Posted on: October 02, 2014, 04:08:35 am |
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Sucks to be an Aussie then.
LOL - How do you figure?
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