The legality of WoW is questionable :P<br>
Emulated servers arn't illegal. But connecting to one using the WoW client does break the EULA.<br><br>Second Life is a good idea. I didn't know it was possible to host your own servers. Seems someone has reverse engineered an emu-server and made it open source. I'll have a look at OpenSim and see how it is.<br>
The specifics of the game isn't important, just the idea. Hosting a game server and a client machine, for people to see/play with Live. I was just trying to think of something extremely popular, and WoW fits the bill.<br>
<br>Autodesk do offer a free version of Maya for non-commercial use. So that shouldn't be a problem.<br><br>I don't think Gimp is over rated, it really can do a lot. But again it's not the specific package that's important. More the idea of doing a demo of a FOSS alternative to an Adobe product at a Mac Expo. That would be cool, no? =]<br>
If you're an Inkscape fan, maybe you could do something like Inkscape vs Freehand/Illustrator?<br><br>Calvin<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Caroline Ford <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caroline.ford.work@googlemail.com">caroline.ford.work@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2008/10/23 Calvin <<a href="mailto:mail@lordcalvin.co.uk">mail@lordcalvin.co.uk</a>>:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">><br>
> Games Servers:-<br>
> I know some of the members have a load of servers just laying around. I was<br>
> thinking we could have one running a game server - maybe World of Warcraft<br>
> (most popular MMORPG).<br>
><br>
> Gaming Machines:-<br>
> If we did run a WoW server, we could have a desktop machine running the game<br>
> client, so people can have a little play and see that 1) WoW works on Linux,<br>
> and 2) they can have their own private server running at home, on Linux.<br>
> [WoW runs on pretty low specs, so that shouldn't be a problem.]<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>I think Wow servers are illegal, aren't they? Think you are only<br>
supposed to use Blizzards.<br>
<br>
Wow runs under wine - there are native linux games and clients out<br>
there. Second Life is a good one and is actually open source.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> Stuff like Maya, Inkscape and of course Gimp.<br>
><br>
</div>Maya is expensive!<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> Regarding the .org village itself, another thing we were discussing was the<br>
> posibility of having sit-downs.<br>
> I think this would be really cool. From a non-technical side, what if we had<br>
> someone who knows a thing or two about Gimp, showing that it's actually<br>
> worthy of Photoshop competition, with join-in tutorials.<br>
<br>
</div>But it's not, and I say this as someone who does a lot of artwork.<br>
Inkscape is great, the gimp is overrated. Flogging the gimp at a<br>
MacExpo would be embarrassing<br>
.<br>
<font color="#888888">Caroline<br>
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