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nietzsche wrote: And a democratic process would naturally select what the best options are.
waauw wrote:-1 It would also provide the website's coding to (potential) competitors.
waauw wrote:-1 It would also provide the website's coding to (potential) competitors.
demonfork wrote:waauw wrote:-1 It would also provide the website's coding to (potential) competitors.
This is a very naĆÆve understanding of how things work. There is a lot more to starting a successful business than just having access to website code.
nietzsche wrote:waauw wrote:-1 It would also provide the website's coding to (potential) competitors.
No doubt BasementGuy, age 21, would try to start his own risk site, offering things like 10 dls a year membership, but his excitment would last 3 days.
Then this other guy, GoodWithComputers, would have it running in no time, he would even hire a cheap hosting site, and he would be making a lot of accounts here to advertise his new site. Most likely though, his star wars theme with black background and all would deter normal people from joining, and it would scream credit card fraud.
There's a big community here, I like to think this is the most valuable aspect of the site. And there are different open source license variants, I bet there's one that woudl fit for CC. If some of the attempts ever get serious, a threat with lawyer words and done.
waauw wrote:nietzsche wrote:waauw wrote:-1 It would also provide the website's coding to (potential) competitors.
No doubt BasementGuy, age 21, would try to start his own risk site, offering things like 10 dls a year membership, but his excitment would last 3 days.
Then this other guy, GoodWithComputers, would have it running in no time, he would even hire a cheap hosting site, and he would be making a lot of accounts here to advertise his new site. Most likely though, his star wars theme with black background and all would deter normal people from joining, and it would scream credit card fraud.
There's a big community here, I like to think this is the most valuable aspect of the site. And there are different open source license variants, I bet there's one that woudl fit for CC. If some of the attempts ever get serious, a threat with lawyer words and done.
Not a very easy thing to check when you're talking about a market of highly similar products.
nietzsche wrote:waauw wrote:nietzsche wrote:waauw wrote:-1 It would also provide the website's coding to (potential) competitors.
No doubt BasementGuy, age 21, would try to start his own risk site, offering things like 10 dls a year membership, but his excitment would last 3 days.
Then this other guy, GoodWithComputers, would have it running in no time, he would even hire a cheap hosting site, and he would be making a lot of accounts here to advertise his new site. Most likely though, his star wars theme with black background and all would deter normal people from joining, and it would scream credit card fraud.
There's a big community here, I like to think this is the most valuable aspect of the site. And there are different open source license variants, I bet there's one that woudl fit for CC. If some of the attempts ever get serious, a threat with lawyer words and done.
Not a very easy thing to check when you're talking about a market of highly similar products.
The idea is not brilliant. Nothing super hard to think of. The value of the code is that it's already written and works to a certain degree of reliability. Modifying the code in little parts to try to hide the copy paste would not be enough to fool any programmer really. There are certain coding practices that can be easily identified. There are specialized judges I believe, that work in these matters. Not that CC would like it to come to that, but I honestly think it's not a serious risk.
The con is simply that you'd give other people a general idea of how things can be done. But if they're not good enough to figure it out themselves, I don't think they'll have a lot of future as a game programmer/designer.
Then the Pros are much more interesting. Different ideas implemented, things we/they never thought of, could benefit the site greatly.
The current coders (blake and bW as I understand) would focus more on testing the ideas implemented, thinking of possible problems, specific ideas they have for the site, etc etc.
khazalid wrote:2 cents:
anyone thinking of investing time, money and effort into launching a competitor site on the back of CC code being open source would, at this point in time, be thoroughly dissuaded from doing so by a perfunctory amount of market research.
nietzsche wrote:Open the code to everyone so that we can fix issues/ improve the site
Specifics/Details:
Make the code of the different parts of the system open so everyone can improve it.
Chose the license that fits best for the owner.
Create a process of testing and selecting the improvements
How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:
There are a bunch of programmers playing in this site. By making the code available to everyone, a lot of issues would be fixed quickly and a lot of improvements would be made.
There's no need to fear people stealing the code and making their own site, there are different types of licenses.
I guarantee that in no time, people will start improving the code. And a democratic process would naturally select what the best options are.
demonfork wrote:waauw wrote:-1 It would also provide the website's coding to (potential) competitors.
This is a very naĆÆve understanding of how things work. There is a lot more to starting a successful business than just having access to website code.
GoranZ wrote:nietzsche wrote:Open the code to everyone so that we can fix issues/ improve the site
Specifics/Details:
Make the code of the different parts of the system open so everyone can improve it.
Chose the license that fits best for the owner.
Create a process of testing and selecting the improvements
How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:
There are a bunch of programmers playing in this site. By making the code available to everyone, a lot of issues would be fixed quickly and a lot of improvements would be made.
There's no need to fear people stealing the code and making their own site, there are different types of licenses.
I guarantee that in no time, people will start improving the code. And a democratic process would naturally select what the best options are.
Making the code open source(now available as you say it) wont change anything to good, not a single thing. It might change things to bad tho.
Army of GOD wrote:at the very least they need to make the front end design open source. I'm sure there are some web devs who are throwing up at the sight of the layout and color scheme
waauw wrote:demonfork wrote:waauw wrote:-1 It would also provide the website's coding to (potential) competitors.
A great example is the 'minecraft' platform, where private servers constantly compete with each other to make themselves better than the rest.
You don't know to what extent this digital crowdsourcing will benefit the website.
Considering the low number of people that are both willing and capable of contributing, it would be much more beneficial to just offer them (more prominent) positions within website staff.
waauw wrote: What CC needs to do is try and hold on to its core players the ones who keep the forums running, the ones who keep tournaments running, the ones who keep clans running, the ones who just open massive number of games etc. They are the foundation of this website
waauw wrote:preceding any marketing strategy decent market research needs to be done.
waauw wrote:Personally I don't like the idea of the unknown, when there is potential for investigation.
nietzsche wrote:There's no need to fear people stealing the code and making their own site, there are different types of licenses.
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