Quote from: Greater on Sep 08, 2021, 03:41 PM
New necro record?
Quote from: Thesifer on Sep 03, 2021, 03:49 PM
This topic is actually fascinating to read today. I know this is Graveyard diving to bring it up. But I actually found it again doing a Google Search of all things.
Interestingly the "Tons of Boards out there without knowing what is what, and what does what..." Doesn't really hold much water in this case, because there has only and probably will only, ever be 1 GreaterMud. Now if the engine were released, and other boards could pop up, that would be one thing.
I think the real argument is "I spent a lot of work and don't want people to use that for free, and possibly even come up with a better version." Which I can understand somewhat.
With MMud Explorer out there, and the ability to load in different databases though, you could pretty easily open source without this issue. Or even DON'T open source, but maybe license out the engine. "It doesn't come with the database, but you can .. probably.. find that somewhere! ;-)" ... Engine is $10 a month (just a random figure)...