Personally I agree with Claudio. Given the total lack of user support toward the AGM I can't see what their problem is. Anyone who visits the AGM forum can see how dead it is. Most people have given it up because A. the manual doesn't explain things well because it's not current and B. Nobody is willing to help them figure out how to get things to work properly. I gave it up because I couldn't get item sounds to stop playing after the character picked up the object, or monsters to disappear after they died as they would in an ordinary game. And again, the developers were absolutely no help. As far as I'm concerned that's not a good way to go if you wanted more funding for the project. I get the impression they really don't care if anyone uses it anymore. They seem to feel that because the program was free its users can't be called customers and therefore don't need to be helped when they have issues with the product. So while I can understand not making it open source, I agree that it should be turned over to someone who'll actually pay attention to the feedback from users. Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:33 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] my oppinion to the game marked
> Hi Claudio, > While I really enjoy open source software myself I am also a realist. > Fact of the matter is there are some very good reasons why they wouldn't > want to make AGM open source or turn it over to another developer. The > minute they release it as open source or turn it over to a new developer > they lose all copyrights to the source code, ideas, and an anything else > associated with the product. > As a software developer myself I work hard at what I do, and I > personally wouldn't like someone I don't really know mettling with the > source code. We programmers have our own ways of doing things, and it > can get very annoying to see someone else write a piece of code totally > different from how you would have done it. Also if I work many many > hours on a product I would be upset if someone took my source code, made > a couple changes, and suddenly marketed it under his/her name. > > Claudio wrote: >> Hi Thomas! >> To say one word about the AGM: >> My friend, is a good computer man. >> He has sended an e-mail to the developers and he has asked them for the >> surce code of AGM because he's interested to continiuing the work. >> But the people have sayed "no, we don't do that!" >> The developers have bringed a product sorry for saying that, we couldn't >> use! >> And here comes a friendly guy who wants to continiuing the work! >> Why dear developers you don't give him the surce code? >> Best regards, >> Claudio. >> >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
