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Latest Comments by Julius
Prepare to see a lot more of Epic Online Services, with Epic's new self-publishing
10 Mar 2023 at 7:30 pm UTC Likes: 6

I hope game developers will realize what a racket EOS is and rather use a fully open-source and store independent option like Nakama: https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama [External Link]

Free and open source 6DOF flight racer Fly Dangerous has a huge second update
10 Mar 2023 at 11:57 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: tfk
Quoting: Julius
Quoting: tfkTake KDE plasma for instance. The KDE team built it on top of Telerik's Qt. That one is open source as long as your application is free of charge. When you want to go commercial then you have to pay for a license. Not exactly OSS but it works for the KDE team.
This is outdated by around two decades. What rock have you been living under? qt is fully FOSS. It just *also* has a commercial edition.

And sure some Unity projects might be able to recycle this script code, but that doesn't make the game itself open-source. The engine is by far the largest part of the game and it is not even shared-source like the Unreal engine.
"qt is fully FOSS. It just *also* has a commercial edition."

Hahaha 😆 yeah sure Juli. Go read some licenses first before you come up with non-arguments.
Seriously, read them yourself. Nothing in the licensing of the qt community edition prevents commercial use. Your are completly out of date with your FUD.

Free and open source 6DOF flight racer Fly Dangerous has a huge second update
10 Mar 2023 at 12:09 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: tfkTake KDE plasma for instance. The KDE team built it on top of Telerik's Qt. That one is open source as long as your application is free of charge. When you want to go commercial then you have to pay for a license. Not exactly OSS but it works for the KDE team.
This is outdated by around two decades. What rock have you been living under? qt is fully FOSS. It just *also* has a commercial edition.

And sure some Unity projects might be able to recycle this script code, but that doesn't make the game itself open-source. The engine is by far the largest part of the game and it is not even shared-source like the Unreal engine.

Free and open source 6DOF flight racer Fly Dangerous has a huge second update
8 Mar 2023 at 10:14 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: Julius"Open-Source"... to a very limited extent since it uses the Unity3D engine.

You might want to change the head-line as "Free and Open Source" usually refers to FOSS, and this isn't FOSS at all. Even the assets are under a restrictive NC license.
I disagree. Code under a FOSS license is still FOSS. This also applies to the assets, we say happily things like OpenMW and OpenRA are FOSS but they also need proprietary assets. One part not being FOSS doesn’t mean the part that is FOSS suddenly isn’t.
You can argue about the assets, but the code is to 90% non-FOSS as it uses the Unity3D engine. There is no way this code can be used without it, so the game really does not qualify as FOSS.

Free and open source 6DOF flight racer Fly Dangerous has a huge second update
8 Mar 2023 at 9:52 pm UTC Likes: 1

"Open-Source"... to a very limited extent since it uses the Unity3D engine.

You might want to change the head-line as "Free and Open Source" usually refers to FOSS, and this isn't FOSS at all. Even the assets are under a restrictive NC license.

Collabora announce 'Mercury' hand-tracking for open source XR runtime Monado
28 Feb 2023 at 7:45 pm UTC

I guess this is something Valve is at least partially funding for their rumoured Deckard standalone VR headset.

No Man's Sky Fractal gets a VR overhaul, new Expedition, Gyro update
23 Feb 2023 at 1:18 pm UTC Likes: 3

Awesome, then I need to try it again in VR. Previously the VR experience was very much lacking resulting in me never seriously trying this game.

Now the same needs to be done for Subnautica, which is also a very much subpar VR experience.

The new Vampire Survivors update is trippy and pulled me back in
14 Feb 2023 at 11:37 am UTC

This is really starting to sound like a slot machine... I wonder if that is intentional?

AMD reveal Ryzen 7000 X3D processors, desktop 65W CPUs and new mobile chips
5 Jan 2023 at 5:58 pm UTC Likes: 1

I wonder if they still plan to make the long rumoured AM4 5600 X3D. Would be sure nice for a cost efficient upgrade on AM4 systems.

What I want to see in 2023 for Linux, Gaming, Steam Deck and more
1 Jan 2023 at 1:51 pm UTC Likes: 4

Steamlink app for ARM platforms other than RasberryPi... at best just open-source the damn thing.