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Threshold · 03-29-2006, 02:15 PM

It does not sound to me like that is their attitude at all. It sounds like they have tried to make the best out of the situation, while also trying to maintain the finacial viability of their enterprise.

One of the worst things that ever happened to the MUD community was the fact that it had its exploison BEFORE the open source movement. If MUDs came along now, instead of ~20 years ago, all of these mud engines would be open source and probably hosted somewhere like sourceforge.

The restrictive licenses put on so many MUD engines, drivers, source code, etc. has been nothing but a burden for the MUD community, as it provided a disincentive for a lot of commercial operations that could have really helped MUDding become more than a niche hobby.

03-29-2006, 02:15 PM	#26
Threshold Legend Join Date: Apr 2002 Home MUD: Threshold RPG Posts: 1,260	It does not sound to me like that is their attitude at all. It sounds like they have tried to make the best out of the situation, while also trying to maintain the finacial viability of their enterprise. One of the worst things that ever happened to the MUD community was the fact that it had its exploison BEFORE the open source movement. If MUDs came along now, instead of ~20 years ago, all of these mud engines would be open source and probably hosted somewhere like sourceforge. The restrictive licenses put on so many MUD engines, drivers, source code, etc. has been nothing but a burden for the MUD community, as it provided a disincentive for a lot of commercial operations that could have really helped MUDding become more than a niche hobby.