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madpeople
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Post by madpeople »

can we legally use the term "open source"

Since that tells people "It's free", "It's official, not a trojan", "It's not partially free", the same way "Free download" or "free full version" do.

Also, can we stick "Microsoft" somewhere on there, since that says "It was made by a proper company, not a load of open source jocks who have an arm long list of 'known issues'"

People who question the juxtaposition of "Microsoft" and "open source" can be directed to the community history (we don't want the term 'abandon ware' on the front page)
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Post by Dorjan »

madpeople wrote:QUOTE (madpeople @ Dec 14 2009, 05:35 PM) can we legally use the term "open source"

Since that tells people "It's free", "It's official, not a trojan", "It's not partially free", the same way "Free download" or "free full version" do.

Also, can we stick "Microsoft" somewhere on there, since that says "It was made by a proper company, not a load of open source jocks who have an arm long list of 'known issues'"

People who question the juxtaposition of "Microsoft" and "open source" can be directed to the community history (we don't want the term 'abandon ware' on the front page)
But we DO have a arm long list of 'known issues'...
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Post by refill »

I am still on the fence Bacon & friends.
I have seen two visual examples I think that look ok/borderline good. There are many good tips and pointers here but I am not sure I have seen everything. Please aggregate the examples for us morons to pick and choose at our leisure. :o

Keep it up!
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Post by Valiance »

That banner is awesome btw.

I don't particularly like the big orange "watch the intro movie" link though; its kind of crude; I would suggest a nice pretty button like you have for the other stuff.
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Post by refill »

No Tigger, you are on short rations and depending on how next months vote off goes. You and the next person who shouts "Flash" are walking the plank!!

Regards to Davvy and all that.
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Post by Adept »

Option 1 - as it's about 40 times better than the current one.

Adding screen shots is always good though.

Bacon, you've really come through with this one :iluv:
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Post by pkk »

madpeople wrote:QUOTE (madpeople @ Dec 14 2009, 06:35 PM) can we legally use the term "open source"
Shared Source is not "Open Source". ;)
The Escapist (Justin Emerson) @ Dec 21 2010, 02:33 PM:
The history of open-source Allegiance is paved with the bodies of dead code branches, forum flame wars, and personal vendettas. But a community remains because people still love the game.
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Post by Gandalf2 »

I would like to see something more about the team-based awesomeness nature of the game. It was this that attracted me to the game more than the promise of blowing stuff up and dogfighting.

Perhaps a link to the old "Best game no-one played" award...?

Despite this, I still prefer BaconPage to the existing one, but not by a huge amount.
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Post by madpeople »

Dorjan wrote:QUOTE (Dorjan @ Dec 14 2009, 05:39 PM) But we DO have a arm long list of 'known issues'...
No, we are following the lead of health services and waiting lists - we have an arm long list of issues waiting to be added to the list of known issues which is currently blank.
pkk wrote:QUOTE (pkk @ Dec 14 2009, 06:12 PM) Shared Source is not "Open Source". ;)
I missed the '?' on the end of the sentence, but I guess people will figure out that shared source is similar
Tigereye wrote:QUOTE (Tigereye @ Dec 14 2009, 07:25 PM) If there's still debate about using flash, do I get a veto as the website admin if I say I refuse to host it? :D
Hoster gets veto
fuzzylunkin1 wrote:QUOTE (fuzzylunkin1 @ Dec 14 2009, 07:46 PM) We should use a mix of Flash, Silverlight, and Java!
You know, I could attempt to knock together a java applet to do the kind of things flash does, only I would be writing all the code to animate things and detect if buttons have been clicked too...
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Post by Bard »

madpeople wrote:QUOTE (madpeople @ Dec 14 2009, 04:29 AM) Is anyone here good with adobe flash?

Absolutely NO FLASH. Anyone who suggests flash for webpages is either form-over-function obsessed or has never tried to maintain a flash site for over a year. Usually the fricking former.


Bacon -- I LOVE IT. It's not only an EXCELLENT IDEA, It's shaping up really nicely so far.
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