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Archive for February, 2008

Comparison of Open Source and Closed Source

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Wikipedia explained that:
The open source vs. closed source (alternatively called proprietary software) debate is sometimes heated.
Making money through traditional methods, such as sale of the use of individual copies and patent royalty payment, is more difficult and sometimes impractical with open source software. Some closed-source advocates see open source software as damaging to the market [...]

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Open Source Games

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Open source games are computer games assembled out of, and are themselves, open-source software and open content.
See below list of open source games:

FreeDoom is a set of open source graphics files for open source versions of the Doom engine
GNU Chess is a chess program. Xboard (a.k.a. Winboard) is an open-source front-end for it.

OpenTTD is an [...]

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