Is Open Source An Advantage For Game Developers?

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CA Advantage Ingres To Be Released As
Open Source

CA Advantage Ingres To Be Released As
Open Source 05/24/2004 09:41 PM

Seven open source business strategies
for competitive advantage

Seven open source business strategies
for competitive advantage 05/14/2004 09:16 AM
Open source presents a large potential competitive advantage for hardware and software vendors, and vendors of complementary or substitute services. Linux has contributed greatly to the adoption and success of OSS. Companies such as IBM, HP, Red Hat, Oracle, and recently, Novell, have invested in, and legitimized the use of Linux for enterprise applications -- including datacenter operations. Attorney/analyst John Koenig offers a listing of open source strategies that can bring great competitive advantages to companies if implemented correctly. Read on at ITMJ ...

Microsoft encourages open source
developers

Microsoft encourages open source
developers 04/19/2005 09:56 AM
I had my annual meeting with Microsoft's Jason Matusow last week. Our second "annual" meeting, to be precise. He's director of Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative and I introduced you all to him last summer (see "A free lunch with Microsoft", http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/nt/2004/0802nt1.html) when we met at the Open Source Conference. This time around, the venue was the Open Source Business Conference, held at San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel.

Google courts open-source developers

Google courts open-source developers 03/19/2005 02:41 AM

eBay Turns to Open-Source Developers

eBay Turns to Open-Source Developers 06/22/2005 02:16 AM
The online marketplace targets open-source developers with a source code collaboration program for creating tools tied to eBay.

Open-Source Developers Close In on
Proprietary Vendors

Open-Source Developers Close In on
Proprietary Vendors 04/05/2005 10:21 PM
Open-source vendors of enterprise application software will have competitive advantages over established proprietary license vendors, especially in the SMB field, says Larry Augustin, CEO of Medsphere Systems, during the Open Source Business Conference.

Open-Source Developers: Microsoft
Licensing Must Be GPL-Compatible

Open-Source Developers: Microsoft
Licensing Must Be GPL-Compatible 03/19/2005 02:53 AM
They say the European Commission will have to demand substantial changes to Microsoft's protocol-licensing plan if it wants to bring real competition back to the workgroup server market.

LinuxWorld: Big Changes Coming from
Open-Source Licensing, Developers

LinuxWorld: Big Changes Coming from
Open-Source Licensing, Developers 06/05/2005 11:54 PM
eWeek May 26 2005 5:29PM GMT

Apache, open-source developers want
Sender ID scrapped

Apache, open-source developers want
Sender ID scrapped 09/03/2004 12:59 AM
ZDNet Australia Sep 3 2004 5:03AM GMT

Open-Source Developers Cheer New Linux
Base Standard

Open-Source Developers Cheer New Linux
Base Standard 09/13/2004 11:49 PM
The Free Standards Group's updated standard will improve Linux code portability and interoperability, developers say, and reduce the worry of platform fragmentation.

Legal center established for open-source
projects, developers

Legal center established for open-source
projects, developers 02/01/2005 09:25 PM
SiliconValley.com Feb 1 2005 6:01AM GMT

What proprietary software can teach open
source developers about winning over new
users

What proprietary software can teach open
source developers about winning over new
users 04/12/2005 08:04 AM
Being the best doesn't always mean being the most popular. We all know of many inferior products that are immensely, sometimes perplexingly, popular. However, this does not mean that one must forsake the pursuit of excellence when pursuing a broad market share. As proponents of open source software, it should not be beneath us to pursue popularity or to look to proprietary developers as examples. And by following the right examples, we can help spread the usage of open source software without sacrificing the goal of software excellence.

Open-Source Developers Cheer New Linux
Base Standard (Ziff Davis)

Open-Source Developers Cheer New Linux
Base Standard (Ziff Davis) 09/14/2004 01:34 AM
Ziff Davis - The Free Standards Group's updated standard will improve Linux code portability and interoperability, developers say, and reduce the worry of platform fragmentation.

Sekoya - Open source game development

Sekoya - Open source game development 12/14/2003 12:28 PM
CVS is now enabled!

Paranoia game redesigned using
open-source methodology

Paranoia game redesigned using
open-source methodology 08/06/2004 07:52 AM
Paranoia, the classic role-playing game in which players battle a mad, totalitarian computer for their freedom ("a light-hearted game of terror, death, bureaucracy, mad scientists, mutants, dangerous weapons, insane robots, and technological satire that encourages players to lie, cheat, and backstab each other at every turn") has just re-launched with a new version that was collaboratively developed with players via a Wiki, borrowing "the tools and methods of open-source software development for a paper game."

To a large degree, the game was developed online, in public. Fans of the game contributed enthusiastically via blog, wiki, and online forum. They wrote text, debated rules, proofread, ran statistical analyses, and even wrote a computer simulator to test the game's paper-and-pencil rules.

"Online collaboration made this edition of Paranoia the best yet," said Allen Varney (www.allenvarney.com), the game's designer. "We borrowed the tools and methods of open-source software development for a paper game, and it worked brilliantly. I plan to create future games the same way, and other designers should consider it too."

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NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits."

NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits." 02/17/2004 11:57 PM
As per a recent post, I love to see (and hope to one day do it myself) Open Source Software in Non-Profits. Seems http://www.nosi.net found my post: http://thelostolive.net/tlo/comments.php?id=1786_0_1_0_C And commented the release of its new guide "Choosing and Using Open Source Software: A Primer for Nonprofits." And now in their own words: ___snip____ -- From: Katrin Verclas Email: steering (a) nosi.net Hi, Kevin - NOSI actually just released a new...

Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group

Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group 05/07/2004 04:33 PM
A key leader in the open-source software movement has been appointed to the board of Open Source Risk Management, which is defending the legal standing of open-source software.

Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine

Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine 03/08/2004 11:20 PM
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030104/open.html ASK A GROUP OF corporate IT leaders whether they'd rather stick their arms into a box of tarantulas or allow open source software (OSS) on their networks, and odds are most would start rolling up their sleeves. Not to do any downloading, either.

Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life

Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life 06/23/2004 08:27 PM
As Canada protects the patents on genes, Download Aborted wonders whether the genetic code should be considered Open Source. It's slashdotted here. And as atonement for saying something positive about the people at Microsoft — man, you folks are rough! — here's some slashdottism about the anti-Open Source think tanks that Microsoft is funding. (But I still like the Microsofties I've met. So there.)...

Open source process for open source
development

Open source process for open source
development 04/05/2005 11:50 AM

Sun has given every possible indication that Open Solaris will be run as a true open source project. The latest indication is the make-up of the board of directors: Casper Dik, Roy Fielding, Al Hopper, Simon Phipps, and Rich Teer. (via Simon Phipps - congrats Simon!)

Open source opportunity, open source
risk

Open source opportunity, open source
risk 09/22/2004 10:44 AM
I've been traveling more than usual lately, and while on the road I've been working my way through the ITConversations audio archive. It's full of gems, and one of them is Doug Kaye's interview with Philip Greenspun. While discussing the ArsDigita flameout, Greenspun offers insightful perspectives on the opportunity, and the risk, of open source as a business model. ...

Tool for Game Developers

Tool for Game Developers 12/10/2003 03:25 AM

Are you a 3D game developer? Here's a new shader tool (ShaderWorks XT).

New: O'Reilly's AI for Game Developers

New: O'Reilly's AI for Game Developers 08/30/2004 09:59 AM
AI for Game Developers, by David M. Bourg and Glenn Seemann, introduces novice game programmers and experienced programmers who are new to AI to game AI techniques such as finite state machines, fuzzy logic, and neural networks.

Console game developers move to Mac

Console game developers move to Mac 06/03/2004 05:29 AM
UK game developers Aaron and Adam Fothergill today announced that they have set up Strange Flavour Ltd...

Game Developers Conference Notebook

Game Developers Conference Notebook 03/14/2005 05:41 PM
This year's GDC was almost a sleepy affair. We suspect it's the lull before the storm of new announcements hits. But there were some interesting tidbits we uncovered along the way.

Online game developers wanted -- in
China

Online game developers wanted -- in
China 08/22/2004 11:23 PM
Einnews.com - Mon Aug 23, 12:45 am GMT

Life is tough for game developers, says
study

Life is tough for game developers, says
study 04/29/2004 11:48 AM
It looks like it's all work and no play for game developers. The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has a white paper titled "Quality of Life in the Game Industry: Challenges and Best Practices." Some of the findings:

Crunch time is omnipresent, during which respondents work 65 to 80 hours a week.

The average crunch work week exceeds 80 hours 13% of the time.

Overtime is often uncompensated.

Spouses are likely to respond that "You work too much..." (61.5%); "You are always stressed out." (43.5%); "You don't make enough money." (35.6%)

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Online-game developers eye China market

Online-game developers eye China market 05/14/2004 07:35 AM
Western publisher face a maze of cultural, political and business barriers as they try to crack the potentially huge Chinese game market.

From open source to open services to
open information

From open source to open services to
open information 03/29/2005 12:00 PM
My March 21 entry about upcoming.org turned out to be an odd juxtaposition because, on the same day, a new events database called EVDB was announced and shown at PC Forum. It's due out shortly in public beta but I haven't seen it, so for now I only know what you can also learn from reading, among others: Dan Farber, Ross Mayfield, Om Malik, David Weinberger, and Paul Kedrosky (whose recent archive is missing this morning, yikes). The consensus seems to be that EVDB will be a Web-2.0-style, Wiki-style, RSS-friendly, Flickr-and-del.icio.us-like thingy. Sounds promising! I'll certainly check it out when it's public. ...

Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb)

Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb) 04/08/2005 04:56 AM
TechWeb - The software vendor will add to the 20 products it now offers for source-code inspection under its Shared Source Initiative.

Online Game Developers Tapping Asian
Markets

Online Game Developers Tapping Asian
Markets 07/09/2004 10:11 PM
Times.hankooki.com - Fri Jul 9, 10:50 am GMT

Phelios Posts Games by Developers Using
the PTK Game Engine

Phelios Posts Games by Developers Using
the PTK Game Engine 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
Phelios, Inc. announced that they are publishing the game, “Spin Around” on the Phelios.com website. Spin Around is an innovative twist on the matching color puzzle games, created by Winter Wolves’ Programmer, Celso Riva. Not only must the player match 3 or more colored balls in rows, but can do so by spinning the whole board around and letting the balls fall, as well as shift individual rows of balls.

Microsoft releases source code to open
source community

Microsoft releases source code to open
source community 05/05/2004 04:06 AM
About a month ago, Microsoft posted some of its source code to SourceForge. SourceForge is a, if not the, major distribution point for open source software. Microsoft's code was put there under the terms of the Common Public License, which allows modification, addition, redistribution - in short, it allows most of the rights and privileges that we associate with open source software.

Microsoft DirectX slides at Game
Developers Conference 2004

Microsoft DirectX slides at Game
Developers Conference 2004 04/27/2004 05:33 PM
This download includes presentations given by the Windows gaming and graphics team at the Game Developers Conference 2004. Included is the Microsoft DirectX Developer Day content and the High-Level Shader Language (HLSL) Workshop content.

Advice to Microsoft: Open Source the
Leaked Source

Advice to Microsoft: Open Source the
Leaked Source 02/13/2004 02:37 PM
What should Microsoft do, now that a chunk of its NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 source code have leaked onto the Web? Our guest columnist says Microsoft should make lemonade out of lemons and just open source the whole enchilada.

Open source process for closed source
development

Open source process for closed source
development 04/05/2005 11:50 AM

IBM Adopts Open Development Internally: "Following on the success of its Eclipse open-source development platform, IBM has quietly been using a form of open-source development internally to create technology the company will sell commercially.

IBM calls its model Community Source, which it defines as a collaborative, internal, open-source-style environment for developing and testing new technology.

Danny Sabbah, vice president of strategy and technology for the IBM Software Group, in Armonk, N.Y., said IBM is using its Community Source model across 100 projects and 2,000 developers in the company. These projects span the IBM Software Group, Systems Group, Research and Global Services, he said."

Very interesting. I'd like to learn more about that. What parts of the so called open source development process have they built into the Community Source model? I've found that most developers have different definitions of the open source development process (via Ross Gardler).

Pingtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With
New Open Source Business Model.

Pingtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With
New Open Source Business Model. 02/18/2004 10:41 PM
Pi ngtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With New Open Source Business Model. Interesting.

Open Standards - Open Source. The
Business, Legal & Technical Challenges
Ahead.

Open Standards - Open Source. The
Business, Legal & Technical Challenges
Ahead. 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
The meeting comprised four panels: Business, Technical, Legal, and Social and Ethical, each of which featured an introduction of the issues and follow-up with an interactive discussion between the speakers and the audience. The aim was to capture and publish the issues discussed in order to raise the industry awareness of the benefits of Open Source.

Developers called to the open cause

Developers called to the open cause 07/21/2004 11:22 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jul 22 2004 3:15AM GMT
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