What if Space Empires VI went Open Source?

[Phoenix-D]

Urendi Maleldil said:
A project can be open source and still be commercial. "Free and Open Source" means free as in "speech," but not necessarily free as in "beer."

Not unless the images or some other file are closed-source, or you aren't allowed access to the code until you buy the product.

[Gandalf Parker]

Thats not true. There are open source projects that sell their stuff on discs. Sure it can be dug up and downloaded for nothing by people who will look for it but the CDs still sell well. Not to mention the other merchandising such as tshirts, mugs, mousepads, posters (which I still want to see SEV do some of)

For example, the Debian Linux Operating System is that way. Open source and free to download but sells the discs.

[Atrocities]

"What if Space Empires VI went Open"

Never going to happen.

[Urendi Maleldil]

One big example is Red Hat Linux. They charge for service, support, and proprietary software. But the core app is Open Source.

[boran_blok]

I would charge for the app, but keep it open source. with some fancy DRM stuff (activation-key-esque) this would be possible.

This offers the best of borth worlds, You have to buy it, and it's open source. the key-thinggie will probably be the hard thing to design and implement.