--On Sunday, October 16, 2005 5:24 PM +0100 Bart King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
While you are not naming names, I'd like to suggest that many plugins or modifications that people develop for games tend to do it for either fun or educational reasons, or that they wanted a particular functionality for a particular purpose and decide to release it freely.
What I call the "boom box model". You take your boom box to the park to listen to music. The rest of the people at the park get to enjoy the music, but you don't charge them money for it, because their enjoyment wasn't why you did it.
If this developer that you spoke to is looking for required donations from corporate entities, he really should make this clear, in a language that business people understand (and not developer language, it took me a few years to figure out the difference).
Useful to know. Where does one learn about "non-developer language"? _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux

