Re: [orca-list] Wine apps in Orca?

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Well, I for one am glad to hear it discussed here as I have severely scaled
back the number of mailing lists I frequent and this one is my only open
source-related list.  I recently came across an article on the different
models one could use which included offering subscription-based support
services and extra plugins for which you charge a fee.  I guess the support
one is out of the question for a game since I can't imagine people calling
tech support for games much.  Plugins, now, offers possibilities.  You could
write a really good 3d game and make it so that you can code extra
adventures or extra abilities in players.  Make some challenges doable but
quite difficult without certain enhancements which you charge people to
purchase.  Or, write new scenarios with new quests that use existing
underlying code kind of like muds do with areas if you know what I mean.
Or, perhaps, certain characters can be purchased which are not available to
the stock game.  Lastly, code a serviceable but relatively uninspired sound
scheme for the free version and a really suped up set of sounds for the one
you purchase.  Ok, yeah, I take it back, this is getting way off topic.  

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
Behalf Of Thomas Ward
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 10:58 AM
To: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Wine apps in Orca?

Hi Jason,

On 6/27/12, Jason White <jason jasonjgw net> wrote:
> this isn't the right list for such a discussion, but you could write 
> one, have the users cover your expenses, and then put it under the GPL 
> as soon as it has recovered its development costs.

Perhaps, but development costs aren't my only consideration here.
There is the issue of intellectual copyrights to consider here. If I create
a game with various characters, a extensive back story, etc I want to be
able to control how those copyrights are used. Therefore how I license the
software and the ideas has to be carefully considered before hand.

Don't get me wrong. I like the open source model when it comes to general
software, being able to share software with the community, but its a two
edged sword. I have a wife and son and one way I make a living is by writing
software. If I give everything away for free I can't put food on the table.
If I have an idea that may sell, make a few thousand, I could put towards
bills that covers my living expenses, then I need to consider some sort of
commercial license anyway.  I guess you can say it is the practicality of
open source vs real life expenses and a need to make a living. As you say
this probably isn't the forum to discuss this aspect of the software
development side of things.

Cheers!
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