Re: Thinking out loud about a new RPG web framework

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)?