Marko Lindqvist wrote on Feb 01, 17:02 (+0200): > On 1 February 2014 11:19, Christian Knoke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Starting point of the discussion was a shop that (packages and) sells FOSS > > for cheap money > > Well, name issue has nothing to do with that starting point of the thread. > There was more material where Freeciv was wrongly written with > capital C, and I commented how I hate it when people read our name as > "just a civ clone" while practically all our development is about > features not in civ/2, and flexible ruleset format allows people to do > very different games from civ/2 - for a long time I've referred to > freeciv as "an engine for many kind of games" rather than just one > game with classic rules - civ/2 rules are just one subset of possible > rules.
Absolutely. But I don't think the name is wrong. People I know rather think it's like "Linux" or "difficult", not a "clone". Christian -- Christian Knoke * * * http://cknoke.de * * * * * * * * * Ceterum censeo Microsoft esse dividendum. _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
