Re: Thinking out loud about a new RPG web framework

[Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <thunderaxiom@xxxxxxxxx>]

Niels Liisberg skrev den 11-06-2008 18:09:
> Hi Thorbjørn;
>
>
> I'm on the same page as you regarding that "we don’t loose copyright".
> However, I think that the RPG world is too small to both a
> Commercial-IceBreak and an Open-IceBreak under GPL. Maybe I'm wrong here,
> but if the Open-IceBreak kicks off, we (S&M) don’t stand a chance with the
> commercial version.
>
> Also - as Matt refer to: 
>   
> > > I would be very wary of a GPL license. For better or for worse, GPL is
> > >       
> (or at is least viewed as) an anti-commercial political statement as it is a
> distribution license. We do have a little bit of GPL code here but we don't
> modify it so for us, GPL isn't much better than closed source commercial
> software<<
>
> So I would rather have one strong product, controlled from with in a
> community.... this is just my initial thoughts.
>   
In that case I believe that the way to monetize is to provide support 
and expert consultants. I don't know though.

Please also keep saying that this is for ILE, not just RPG. This might 
be a good point.

I'd like to hear a bit more about all the user handling stuff - is it at 
the CGI level, or e.g. at the JSP level (with user sessions and cookies 
and all)?