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I might be out of line, bur: NO it doesn't. The guy hosting the racelist
needs money too keep it all to himself. People were standing in line to
offer free hosting of the racelist but it was declined. If he wants to go it
alone, he can do so, but then I would expect him to do pay for it himself
too. I don't thnk it is rigth to say that if we don't pay VROC is dead,
because the free alternative would probably still be there, if the guy
behind would give in. At the moment he is saying: To keep it free, you have
to pay. I don't get it.
Joakim
Just an opinion from someone who knows nothing about this except what's on
the web page,
Phillip
> I might be out of line, bur: NO it doesn't. The guy hosting the racelist
> needs money too keep it all to himself. People were standing in line to
> offer free hosting of the racelist but it was declined. If he wants to go
it
> alone, he can do so, but then I would expect him to do pay for it himself
> too. I don't thnk it is rigth to say that if we don't pay VROC is dead,
> because the free alternative would probably still be there, if the guy
> behind would give in. At the moment he is saying: To keep it free, you
have
> to pay. I don't get it.
> Joakim
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Perhaps there's a confusion here between the two meanings of "free" -
as GNU would say, "free beer" is not the same as "free speech".
We already know that VROC is not going to be made open source, and
that's that - which is, of course, disappointing, but the owner of a
program has an *absolute right* to do what he wants with it - there
isn't any point in saying stupid things like "you must do this and
that". (Maybe someone could write a WINE-like program to simulate VROC
commands without using any copyrighted code ;-) )
When Guy talks about turning down offers to host VROC (which
would otherwise have been a good thing to accept) because he wants to
make sure it "will always be free for everyone to use", the logical
conclusion is that he discovered that all the people offering to host
would only do it on certain conditions (eg that they would have the
right to split themselves off from the "main" VROC), which Guy was not
prepared to accept. If that's the case, I agree with him.
Let's be honest, most of us are, in our heart of hearts, selfish about
this. All we want is to fire up VROC and race, and we don't much care
about the structures behind it. Looks like we ned to open our eyes a
bit now.
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That I didn't know (or if I did, I'd forgotten). Seems odd, but
obviously, I don't know all the details, so I won't go on with this
thread.
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> I might be out of line, bur: NO it doesn't. The guy hosting the racelist
> needs money too keep it all to himself. People were standing in line to
> offer free hosting of the racelist but it was declined. If he wants to go
it
> alone, he can do so, but then I would expect him to do pay for it himself
> too. I don't thnk it is rigth to say that if we don't pay VROC is dead,
> because the free alternative would probably still be there, if the guy
> behind would give in. At the moment he is saying: To keep it free, you
have
> to pay. I don't get it.
> Joakim