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And, yes, GPL allows selling for profit. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eddy Petrișor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 29-Jun-2007 15:08 Subject: Re: [Wormux-dev] Publication proposal To: wormux-dev@gna.org Hello people, I want to say upfront that I know I am not at all in a position to speak for the project, nor do I consider myself entitled to any privilege within the project (on the contrary, I am a lazy bastard :-D ). That being said I think that I can go on and speak my mind. I think that any of us knows the financial situation of any/all of the other team members, thus can't judge if/who would benefit most of them. OTOH, if any of the money goes to any particular person this can and will lead to tensions and all sorts of disputes, finally damaging the project. I know I have seen this happening. So the question is, if this money comes down Wormux' road, how could the project benefit from the money in a sensibly fair and useful way without being too discriminatory? I think the answer lies within the following options: - organize a face to face meeting in some place[1] in order to organize a bug squashing party, a development work session and/or a release planning session (DebConf is such an event) - buy hardware and implement some auto builders (preferably machines supporting XEN in order to be able to run parallel builders on different distros at a time) - organize a wormux social meeting in order to meet, get to know each other better (but I am sure this would surely "degenerate" into the first type :-D ); if the meeting remains at a social level, I am sure the team would work better in the end anyway - set bids for different feature requests/bug fixes (this is tricky since there should be some party judging if the issue was dealt with; otoh, we could set a rule to not allow people from within the project to participate, this way attracting fresh blood into the project). Of course, choosing one of the options above depends a lot on the money available. I also know that there is a problem of having some kind of formal organization to take care of the funds, but I am sure we can come up with something, if we consider that is necessary (SPI comes to mind; I am sure there are other options in France or in some other part of the world). What do others think? Any other ideas about spending the money? Salvatore Carotenuto wrote: > Hello, guys! > > I'm Salvatore Carotenuto of Emthesis Development, an italian software > house and videogames company. We have created a new hardware platform > designed for the arcade market, and we are just seling it around the > world, in 18 countries. > The platform is called PlayON and (YES!!!) it's linux based. Due to > this, every software able to run on linux can run on our arcade platform > (the base system is a special reduced distro made by us, and derives > from a Slackware11). One of the topmost features of our arcade system is > that the games are easily replaceable because resides on normal usb > drives (the platform uses an usb drive also as main harddrive). The > other big feature is the low price, so we plan to sell from 3000 to 6000 > units only in 2008, worldwide. > > Have you ever thought to publish an arcade version of Wormux?? I've > played it and i found it very funny. And i was a fan of Worms still in > the old good days of the Amiga! ;) (Yes, I was an Amiga developer ;( ) > We have a special agreement form that gives to the developer the 50% of > the net income deriving from selling the games. Keep in mind that every > copy of a game for PlayON platform can be sold from 150 to 800 euros > (the difference is made by the 'level' of the game and by the > destination market). The 50% of this amount goes to the developer. > > Visit www.play-on.it for more informations. Feel free to contact me on > skype or via msn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for every information needed. > > I'm waiting for an answer! :) > -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein _______________________________________________ Wormux-dev mailing list Wormux-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wormux-dev
