<!-- MHonArc v2.4.4 --> <!--X-Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry --> <!--X-From-R13: Qnyvona Fverfvnf Rnexybpx <pnyvonaNqnexybpx.pbz> --> <!--X-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 18:18:31 -0800 --> <!--X-Message-Id: 4.1.19991115221154.00bc9630@pop.darklock.com --> <!--X-Content-Type: text/plain --> <!--X-Reference: 002b01bddf79$95a99e00$4cdf7ad1@fibhufky.erols.com --> <!--X-Reference: Pine.LNX.4.03.9911151857490.29787-100000@andru.sonoma.edu --> <!--X-Head-End--> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html> <head> <title>MUD-Dev message, Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</title> <!-- meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" --> <link rev="made" href="mailto:caliban@darklock.com"> </head> <body background="/backgrounds/paperback.gif" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" alink="#FF0000" vlink="#006000"> <font size="+4" color="#804040"> <strong><em>MUD-Dev<br>mailing list archive</em></strong> </font> <br> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] <br clear=all><hr> <!--X-Body-Begin--> <!--X-User-Header--> <!--X-User-Header-End--> <!--X-TopPNI--> Date: [ <a href="msg00277.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00281.html">Next</a> ] Thread: [ <a href="msg00389.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00279.html">Next</a> ] Index: [ <A HREF="author.html#00276">Author</A> | <A HREF="#00276">Date</A> | <A HREF="thread.html#00276">Thread</A> ] <!--X-TopPNI-End--> <!--X-MsgBody--> <!--X-Subject-Header-Begin--> <H1>Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</H1> <HR> <!--X-Subject-Header-End--> <!--X-Head-of-Message--> <UL> <LI><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI> <LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</LI> <LI><em>From</em>: Caliban Tiresias Darklock <<A HREF="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</A>></LI> <LI><em>Date</em>: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 22:33:29 -0800</LI> <LI><em>Reply-To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI> <LI><em>Sender</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev-admin#kanga,nu">mud-dev-admin#kanga,nu</A></LI> </UL> <!--X-Head-of-Message-End--> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-Begin--> <HR> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-End--> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <PRE> On 07:10 PM 11/15/1999 -0800, I personally witnessed Andru Luvisi jumping up to say: >On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Philip Loguinov -- Draymoor wrote: >[snip] >> Please explain why you want people to drop very solid source >> codes simply because you are upset you can't use them to make >> money. > >Please explain to us why you stopped beating your wife. Not an adequate comparison of questions. See, you want the entire community to stop using a perfectly good bunch of source code because it doesn't suit *your* needs and desires. Whether you want them to do this because you think everyone should have those same needs and desires, or because you think the entire community should standardise on a single codebase, or for any other reason, is completely irrelevant... you're basically saying "everyone should use things that I would use, and nobody should use things I wouldn't". That's pretty arrogant. I can't see how this would benefit the community. Am I hearing you wrong? What exactly are you trying to say when you claim the entire community should drop restrictive licenses that they're often not the least bit bothered by? >So that they can ask for donations on the login page without worrying >whether it violates the license agreement. So that they can have their >mud included among the Red Hat or Debian packages some day. So they can >use their mud as a virtual office for real work. So they can use their >mud as a classroom which they charge people to attend. I'm sure there's >several more I can't think of right now. All of these are good reasons for YOU to use some other codebase. I have yet to see a good reason why someone with absolutely no commercial ambition for their MUD should use a codebase that permits commercial use. Can you provide one? I mean, let's assume that I don't want to charge for my MUD. Ever. Under any circumstances. Why should I worry about whether I *could* charge for it if I wanted to? >> The only reason i can see is to force >> people to use commercial code bases, code from scratch, or play >> commercial muds > >The fact that these are the only reasons you see do not make them the only >reasons. Let me draw a parallel here. In the BBS days, charging for access to your board was something that no BBS software author would proscribe... because running a board was *expensive*, both in time and money. The average SysOp would buy larger hard drives, more memory, more phone lines, more computers, networking hardware, shareware CD libraries, networked CDR jukeboxes, faster processors... not to mention the time and effort spent in security configuration, menu design, userbase maintenance, FIDO/RIME feeds, netmail gateways, "door" purchase and installation, shareware registrations, etc. Running a BBS cost, on the average, four to six thousand dollars a year for a small multiline board. That money had to come from somewhere, and it was only fair to ask for twenty to fifty follars a year from each member to help cover it. Just help -- usually, the revenue from the board was nowhere near the expense level. The internet used to be very different from this, as most of the things used to run a MUD were "spare" parts and resources donated by helpful operators and network admins. But today, we're no longer in a world where the average internet user is a college student or professional who gets access to the net for free -- most of us pay for our access. Many of us pay for the bandwidth, CPU time, server space, etc. that we use for running the MUD to begin with. It seems unfair that MUD software authors would demand such an investment without any hope of recoup. But rather than demand that MUD implementors use other software, why not demand instead that server authors remove or relax their commercial use restrictions? It seems to me that there are much fewer server authors than there are MUD admins, and therefore less convincing would need to be done. ----- | Caliban Tiresias Darklock caliban#darklock,com | Darklock Communications <A HREF="http://www.darklock.com/">http://www.darklock.com/</A> | U L T I M A T E U N I V E R S E I S N O T D E A D | 774577496C6C6E457645727355626D4974H -=CABAL::3146=- _______________________________________________ MUD-Dev maillist - MUD-Dev#kanga,nu <A HREF="http://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev">http://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev</A> </PRE> <!--X-Body-of-Message-End--> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <HR> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <UL><LI><STRONG>References</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A NAME="00261" HREF="msg00261.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></STRONG> <UL><LI><EM>From:</EM> "Philip Loguinov -- Draymoor" <fibhufky@erols.com></LI></UL></LI> <LI><STRONG><A NAME="00262" HREF="msg00262.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></STRONG> <UL><LI><EM>From:</EM> Andru Luvisi <luvisi@andru.sonoma.edu></LI></UL></LI> </UL></LI></UL> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00277.html">Re: bugs (was RE: [MUD-Dev] players who "take away from the game")</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00281.html">Re: bugs (was RE: [MUD-Dev] players who "take away from the game")</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00389.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00279.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="index.html#00276"><STRONG>Date</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thread.html#00276"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> <ul><li>Thread context: <BLOCKQUOTE><UL> <LI><STRONG>Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <LI><strong><A NAME="00349" HREF="msg00349.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>, Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear@cyberhighway.net">greear@cyberhighway.net</a>, Thu 18 Nov 1999, 07:34 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00368" HREF="msg00368.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>, Greg Miller <a href="mailto:gmiller@classic-games.com">gmiller@classic-games.com</a>, Thu 18 Nov 1999, 18:02 GMT </LI> </ul> <LI><strong><A NAME="00385" HREF="msg00385.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>, J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw@cp.net">claw@cp.net</a>, Thu 18 Nov 1999, 22:53 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00389" HREF="msg00389.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>, Mik Clarke <a href="mailto:mikclrk@attglobal.net">mikclrk@attglobal.net</a>, Fri 19 Nov 1999, 00:47 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> </ul> </ul> <LI><strong><A NAME="00276" HREF="msg00276.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>, Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban@darklock.com">caliban@darklock.com</a>, Wed 17 Nov 1999, 02:18 GMT </LI> </ul> <LI><strong><A NAME="00279" HREF="msg00279.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>, Robert Green <a href="mailto:mooncrow@lava.net">mooncrow@lava.net</a>, Wed 17 Nov 1999, 02:18 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00295" HREF="msg00295.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>, Travis S. Casey <a href="mailto:efindel@io.com">efindel@io.com</a>, Wed 17 Nov 1999, 17:17 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00306" HREF="msg00306.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>, Andru Luvisi <a href="mailto:luvisi@andru.sonoma.edu">luvisi@andru.sonoma.edu</a>, Wed 17 Nov 1999, 21:24 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00312" HREF="msg00312.html">Re[2]: [MUD-Dev] code base inquiry</A></strong>, Travis Casey <a href="mailto:efindel@io.com">efindel@io.com</a>, Wed 17 Nov 1999, 23:17 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> </ul> </ul> </LI> </UL></BLOCKQUOTE> </ul> <hr> <center> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] </center> <hr> </body> </html>