Questions on GPL for billwg 15408

Ray Ingles It's this damned Thunderbird, Ray! It just doesn't thread usefully and I keep losing track of where I was in all the noise. With a new topic to search it might be easier to follow.

I had only said that I didn't see that as a good business opportunity. Now I was coming at it from the notion of using it to create a game and my direct experience has been that artwork and storyline are much more important than software technology in that regard. Now I see where your premise is that I could take the copied material and sell it to other would be game makers for a price that would be so attractive that they would beat a path to my door, eager to save the money that would be otherwise given to a higher price vendor.

Googling a bit shows the availability of a plethora of game engines, many similar to that of HL2 and some of them OSS. Microsoft is even in the space with their DirectX APIs that seem to offer many of the same functions and effects. Companies already making a game have already selected and acquired engine software and are not in the market for another, given the apparent huge cost of changing engines.

I don't think that it is a likely place to invest the substantial time and energy necessary to make a better decision.