Posts Tagged ‘Game’

Nexuiz Forks: Another Example of Single Ownership Problems

March 24th, 2010 Admin
Nexuiz is sort of a poster child open source project, an example of a high-quality game that’s developed by the open source community. Unfortunately, it may also be a poster child of how things can quickly go wrong once commercial interests are involved and when it’s unclear who controls a project. Phoronix is reporting that Nexuiz has forked into Xonotic because the founder of the project has entered a deal to allow proprietary use of the game name and code for a proprietary project.

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Enterprise Edition… Space Invaders?

February 19th, 2010 Admin
What do you get when you cross business logic and 80s arcade video games? An open source Space Invaders clone that’s being used to illustrate the power of a business logic integration platform for game design. Chris Lewis, a Ph.D.

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MySQL Founder Monty Widenius On What to Expect Next

February 3rd, 2010 Admin
MySQL founder Monty Widenius, who left Sun Microsystems early last year, remained very  vocal throughout the long machinations leading up to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, even mounting a letter writing campaign .  With the Sun acquisition going forward, we reached out to Monty for an interview and he was kind enough to share his thoughts with us. In this two-part interview he speaks candidly about MySQL and Sun, and we will run the second half of the long interview tomorrow. OStatic: Now that the acquisition is going through, what do you think the future of MySQL is going to be?

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