Perhaps, but it's not only the Philippines that stands to gain -- you
have a market named China, who incidentally "do not pay for their
software". If someone gets them to actually enforce IPR and
international copyright laws/standards, then we might see Linux moving
into the "real" mass market.
that's a good one.
the chinese can do damn well do anything they please. heck, they're setting up their own internet. they have their own ethernet standards, they build their own routers, they can fab a MIPS R10000 class CPU today (in fact it's an illegal ripoff of the MIPS R10000 and is 95% operand compatible).
the fact is, all the evil western capitalists will roll over and let themselves get REAMED in the behind, just to get a crack (snicker snicker) at the chinese market. but best of all, the chinese don't have to give them anything -- as the world's largest market, and with the capability to "roll their own" in almost ANYTHING, they can tell the rest of the world to go screw itself.
Now if your market numbers in the hundreds of millions, then maybe some
people will be willing to bend backwards for a piece of the pie.
the chinese are more than capable of rolling their own MMORPGs. in fact they have. heck they have their own internet behind that great firewall of china of theirs..
Do I sense a loss of hope in the OSS model? Sounds like you've given up
on the open source model in game development...
games are a lot more than coding. sound, graphics, scriptwriting.. tuxracer gets old really really quick.
besides (i'll be turning thirty next month) at some point games become pointless to you.
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