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["Evan Clinton" <nave.notnilc@xxxxxxxxx>]

BZFlag!!! <3 <3

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 11:06 PM, brent timothy saner
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> *Okay. WE NEED SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR GAMES!
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> 1. they MUST be FaiB at LEAST, but free/open-source is even better. i am unwilling to bend on this. please see the footnote for reasons why [2].
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> 2. we're looking for a wide sample- not only FPS (openarena, warsow, etc.), but strategy (boswars, globulation, etc.), arcade-style (armagetron, etc.) and many others! you can can find a list of GNU/Linux-native games at http://happypenguin.org/
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> 3. a. PLEASE please please try to keep it GNU/Linux-native! I /know/ WINE can run many games flawlessly, but it can be a very tricky and scary thing for users if they've never used WINE before.
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> b. but! if a game isn't in the repositories (many of the good ones aren't!), that's okay. GDebi can install deb files relatively non-scarily for young users, and for everything else it's usually just unzip, make executable, and play (we will have information on that available if you're confused).
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> with that said, i'd love to hear some ideas for games so we can make a poll and gaming schedule!
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> [1] FaiB == Free as in Beer, meaning the data may be copyrighted, but the copyright holder makes it available under a Freeware, Shareware, or similar license. In other words, you don't need to pirate it in order to use it without shelling out $$$ for it.
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> [2] a. we don't want to alienate anyone who wants to support free software (in the f/oss sense and also the more vague free-as-in-beer sense). club-ubuntu was started to be as inclusive as we can.
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> b. there are many very entertaining games that are F/OSS (or FaiB). true, they may not be as "polished" as many commercial/proprietary games, but largely what they lack in Shiny they make up for in originality and concept, and you never stop to notice the number of polygons on a rocket when you've got the flag and you're just trying to dodge the thing. :)
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> c. i realize commercial software or nonfree software is unavoidable at times. however, i think we should do our very best to not support commercial software if given the chance, especially via pirating [2d]  because it brings less attention to the OSS projects, and therefore the OSS projects suffer. it was because of the aggressiveness of the GPL (to keep software and derivatives free) that GNU/Linux took much more userbase than BSD (which has a MUCH more relaxed and "permissive" license).
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> d. i believe it only affects the whole thing disadvantageously. because the loss of profits (even if they're unrealistic desires.. grrr, greedy software corps), they hike the prices up even MORE and this ends up hurting those that wish to keep honesty and integrity when purchasing software that is mission-critical (photoshop, case in point), or cannot risk going to jail because they will be audited for piracy.
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> brent saner.
> gpg info at http://www.notebookarmy.org/gpg.txt
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