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Grenadier: Fix the broken link, remove dev members to keep this text always up-to-date

2014-10-28T19:31:54Z

Fix the broken link, remove dev members to keep this text always up-to-date

Grenadier: Fix the broken link

2014-10-28T19:25:22Z

Fix the broken link

Flowtron: i18n

2010-10-23T22:07:08Z

i18n

Apollo at 07:43, 7 July 2010

2010-07-07T07:43:06Z

Flowtron: fix typo, improve layout for readability/understanding

2010-07-02T16:08:30Z

fix typo, improve layout for readability/understanding

Flowtron: Initial AC-OSS explanation

2010-07-02T16:03:33Z

Initial AC-OSS explanation

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This page is meant to explain some common misconceptions people have about OSS (open-source-software) in general and in detail what these mean for the AssaultCube game.

OSS is often referred to FOSS (free), but this also brings up the issue of what free actually mean. This [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre| wikipedia:Gratis VS Libre] page explains some of the background.

I'd like to go a bit further here and take the "free as in beer" VS "free as in speech" phrases to their possible extremes regarding strechting a metaphor.
In free speech you're really free to say whatever is on your mind, ignoring the basic limitations of translating a thought into a spoken or written form (language).
If you're offered a free beer, you can take it or leave it. If you're more a wine kind-of person and there's only the choice of accept/decline a free beer, you'll either have to drink your less favourite drink or just none at all.

AssaultCube is like free beer - we're offering this game as we have created it to you as a free beer. If you don't like the taste, you can look for other breweries out there - there are a lot of (F)OSS games out there, some may be more to your liking.

This doesn't mean the recipe for AssaultCube is etched in stone and will never change, but some changes are either of very low priority or just basically against the vision we have of the game as we want it to be. We, that is the development team - currently RandumKiwi, Toca, Brahma and flowtron.
The forum and IRC channel are all valid ways of getting into a discussion about possible changes in the features of the game, but you really should have played it for an extended period (more than two months) until you can actually have a founded opinion about this - just because you like some other (often commercial) game, we won't put in feature-X.
Always keep in mind that AssaultCube is targetting the low end of computers, both in graphics and bandwidth. So lot's of stuff you know from top-range games will just never happen in AC.
You may want to check out [http://sauerbraten.com/| Sauerbraten] if you are more into the high-end stuff.

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 This page is meant to explain some common misconceptions people have about OSS (open-source-software) in general and in detail what these mean for the AssaultCube game.
-OSS is often referred to as FOSS too ('''free'''-OSS), but this also brings up the issue of what ''free'' actually means. This [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre| wikipedia:Gratis VS Libre] page explains some of the background.
+OSS is often referred to as FOSS too ('''free'''-OSS), but this also brings up the issue of what ''free'' actually means. This [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre wikipedia:Gratis VS Libre] page explains some of the background.
 I'd like to go a bit further here and take the "free as in beer" VS "free as in speech" phrases to their possible extremes regarding strechting a metaphor.
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 AssaultCube is like free beer - we're offering this game, as we have created it, to you as a free beer. If you don't like the taste, you can look for other "breweries" out there - there are a lot of (F)OSS games out there, some may be more to your liking.
-This doesn't mean the recipe for AssaultCube is etched in stone and will never change, but some changes are either of very low priority or just basically against the vision we have of the game as we want it to be. We, that is the development team - currently RandumKiwi, Toca, Brahma and flowtron.
+This doesn't mean the recipe for AssaultCube is etched in stone and will never change, but some changes are either of very low priority or just basically against the vision we have of the game as we want it to be. We, that is the development team.
 The forum and IRC channel are all valid ways of getting into a discussion about possible changes in the features of the game, but you really should have played it for an extended period (more than two months) until you can actually have a well founded opinion on these kinds of things - just because you like some other (often commercial) game, we won't put in feature-X.

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 Always keep in mind that AssaultCube is targetting the low end of computers, both in graphics and bandwidth. So lot's of stuff you know from top-range games will just never happen in AC.
-You may want to check out [http://sauerbraten.com/| Sauerbraten] if you are more into the high-end stuff.
+You may want to check out [http://sauerbraten.org/ Sauerbraten] if you are more into the high-end stuff.
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 I'd like to go a bit further here and take the "free as in beer" VS "free as in speech" phrases to their possible extremes regarding strechting a metaphor.
-In free speech you're really free to say whatever is on your mind, ignoring the basic limitations of translating a thought into a spoken or written form (language).
+In free speech you're really free to say whatever is on your mind, ignoring the basic limitations of [[i18n | translating]] a thought into a spoken or written form (language).
 If you're offered a free beer, you can take it or leave it. If you're more a wine kind-of person and there's only the choice of ''accept/decline a free beer'', you'll either have to drink your less favourite drink or just none at all.

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	Always keep in mind that AssaultCube is targetting the low end of computers, both in graphics and bandwidth. So lot's of stuff you know from top-range games will just never happen in AC.		Always keep in mind that AssaultCube is targetting the low end of computers, both in graphics and bandwidth. So lot's of stuff you know from top-range games will just never happen in AC.
	You may want to check out [http://sauerbraten.com/\| Sauerbraten] if you are more into the high-end stuff.		You may want to check out [http://sauerbraten.com/\| Sauerbraten] if you are more into the high-end stuff.
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