Post: #5

(08-02-2015 11:04 PM)Ben Wrote:  Now, once again, an old dev team comes crying back about open source.

No, I don't consider myself as a -old or not- sphere dev since I don't have any contribution on it. I am not mad at account cleaning since I was completely inactive, I am not blaming you for anything related to that.

(08-02-2015 11:04 PM)Ben Wrote:  I do not see any benefits to going open source.

Plain wrong, I don't think I need to post lots of paragraphs for the benefits of open source, I really don't.

(08-02-2015 11:04 PM)Ben Wrote:  Everyone will just take the source and modify it for their own server, not sharing with the main branch anyways, the community will dissipate and this place will become a host to a dead branch...

And why does that make you suddenly stop contributing to the master branch? RunUO has lots and lots of forks but it still doesn't keep it from being developed. Even though runuo.com has declared cancellation, people still fork the main branch and develop it on github nowadays. This is a community project. You are doing it for free like all of us, if there is something that needs to be fixed, people would just request push access to fix it. Don't be afraid of being dead, sphereserver is already almost dead at this point. People still have hopes regarding to UO, have you checked the client project UltimaXNA recently? They are doing an amazing job thanks to the open source projects that are released so far. You should let people contribute or fork sphereserver.

Lastly, I am deeply sorry that you were beared with a dead project with 0 contributor at that year. I am not here to be edgy and bash everyone out. I am just trying to make some reasonable explanations.

And yes, I am aware of the fact that there are people with bad intentions who always try to take the credit on something they don't even own and don't share the work. There have always been that type of people, but if it was truly the case, the linux kernel wouldn't even exist.