[VANILLA-L:1451] Re: Discussion

[James Cameron <cameron@stl.dec.com>]

Dave Ahn wrote:
> But I also don't believe that propagating Netrek to the average
> AOL.user is a good idea either.

I like to think that among those twinks there may still be some clue.
Steve Sheldon is going after that lot with Netrek: 1999.  ;-)

> but I think the key is proper organization and the tapping of 
> resources that are out there.

Yes, hence my agreement to use CVS, and the push in to GTK+ for
producing a Linux server GUI, and eventually client, that will fit the
current OSS/Linux push.  I even pushed Kurt to get COW into CVS.

> think about what would happen if Netrek became a standard game 
> component of the various Linux distributions...

Paradise Netrek client is shipped on Red Hat CD already.  I want to
replace it with COW with a GTK+ wrapper.

-- 
James Cameron                                      (cameron@stl.dec.com)

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