Microsoft is selling it's software. It's product range includes operating systems, office software, software development products, etc.
We're releasing one free software to a rather small community that is mostly underaged and we're releasing it with the agreement (with the users) not to use it against the license specifications.
At the beginning of the development, we just specified one big point as the license. No Commercial Use.
Because we're not making any profit of it, everybody using that piece of software should be able to achieve the same state - to publish/release their games for free, with enhancements, additions, etc.
It's some kind of confidence-agreement between us and the users.
We trusted the users not to abuse it. That confidence has been abused a few times and therefore, has been destroyed.
Now clear what I always wanted to say?
This is the first time I ever wrote my thoughts down.
It's a thing of giving and recieving confidence. In fact, abusing confidence is like abandoning your honesty.
And by the way:
Are we really racist when we're doing a German-Community-Only-
BETA-Release because communication and handling of bugreports is much faster and easier?
Time zone differences, distance and language differences - most people around here (I mean the FPSC-Users around here) don't seem to have any experience with handling of bugreports, coding and interaction with a community (from the perspective of a software author).
Intel Xeon 3350 Quad@2,67GHz, Asus Commando, 2GB RAM, Thermaltake Shark, Sapphire Radeon HD2900XT, Samsung Syncmaster 245B 24"
