OUTSIDER wrote:
Apart from your idyllic word (not talking about hibee72 nonsense, better to stop here!), guys, are you BLIND or what?
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Open source software is a reality. Not so idylliac as you paint, but it's a reality. You may agree with the open source philosophy or not (I suppose you don't) but it's a reality.
OUTSIDER wrote:
How can you really think that this is a fair behaviour? I would like to come at your work place and tell your chief that I made all the job you should have done and that you, instead, went away from the office for 3-4 hours without any reason. Then I would like to see your face in front of me!!!
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The issue is in your same words: if words are important and not casual, you think editing as a JOB.
This is not a WORK PLACE.
There is no CHIEF here.
Editing is NOT A JOB.
If you think and you live it as a job, maybe you should open a software house and ask for money for your creations. I know that many of your creations are worth some money but, to be honest, I don't know how many people here would spend some money just to improve a single videogame.
OUTSIDER wrote:
Hibee, in "open-source" softwares, in the credits, there are all people that made, even in a small contribution, part of the project. Here Guimattoss did not mentioned AT ALL Puliciclone? Do you understand? Is this so difficult?
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No, it's not difficult. I said he should have give Puliciclone his credits, and I agree with you with that issue. I'm a bit less concerned about considering editing as a job and claiming for a sort of copyright which is far beyond sharing the pleasure of gaming with some other people.
This bad attitude is what kept me out of releasing and editing anything for this forum and some other forums too: if I'd manage to edit something I'll keep it to myself. My pleasure of gaming is too precious and sacred to be harassed by the frustrations of some kids who want to be somebody just because they released a nice FIFA stadium.
OUTSIDER wrote:
And we are not talking about a superpatch with millions of authors: for God sake, we are talking about a single stadium of a single author: how difficult is to ask permission and to write credits to him?
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It's not difficult indeed, and at least it should not be.
Nevertheless, I've got more than 200 stadiums in my FIFA 09, many downloaded from your site, many somewhere else. How can I trace all the editors and "owners" of that stuff? If you like, I can send you them all and I'll give you 50€ if you guess just half of their owners!
Thank God, I'm an atheist. But if I would believe in God I'm sure He has much more business around the world than caring about some kids shouting for the ownership of a FIFA stadium.
I'm almost regretting those times when FIFA had just two stadiums (the oval and the squared one) and no one gave a damn for all this mess. We just enjoyed the game.
If a single credit is more important than enjoying the game, there's no more fu***ng game. The game is over.