[quote][quote]I understand the flaw with open source is quality control... Thanks to all for continuing to support wide-screen patches. Personally, I don't like the idea of running an executable called "Cheat Engine" while running Steam... which is why I haven't played Skyrim in over a month (sorry Helifax) ...it's just a name, but it seems a bit, eh, dirty.
from my experience open source usually leads to quicker patches, more community involvement, feedback, and better technical help, for the few that understand whats going on, they can lend valuable advice and input or just fix it themselves.
the ONLY TRUE PROBLEM with open source is others can build on what you started and might get more credit because they make it better
**even though in open source GNU / GPL licencing you MUST give credit to anyone who's project/code/ect you use in yours and the licence must transfer to your code...
only for example... if haydens fix was open source project, someone would have made an updated fix while hayden was in NZ, and everyone would have been like " OMFG!! thank you for this..." and all he did was make the adjustments...
the only reason hayden's fix is taking so long after coming back from NZ is he started a new multi game system from scratch...
QFT
I have respect for coders that take time to help, but if this were open source.. this forum would be like 4 pages long, and we'd have a fix within a day of any patches.
And no offense, but stating quality control as a reason for closed source is a pretty weak argument. Examples are too numerous to list, but would include Wordpress, Firefox, Android, Ubuntu, MySql, Fedora, 7-zip, Blender, Thunderbird, Wikipedia, Eclipse, PHP, Python, Perl, etc, etc. These are just some of the great open source projects that easily trump their closed source competitors.
Perhaps some incentive, some compensation for the work already put in? I for one would be willing to "donate" some paypal funds (or other things of value) to help achieve this.. probably others too. Thoughts?
I second that... and i will donate... i have been begging for the HAYDEN fix since day 1 of the new patch... waited patiently, told all the newbies to be patient and wait quietly, helped others to try the other fix, and keep telling myself and everyone else to be patient and wait for HAYDEN's fix (if they like that better)... i was trying to be polite with the situation, was trying to be understanding...
fast forward one month, I am done waiting now... i have not touch the game for more than 3 weeks now... basically cut it off cold turkey... i dont need the game anymore, i dont care if there is a fix, i moved on...
i mean... WTF? why the game developer is doing this to us? why my game has to rely on one programming guru to fix if and whenever he has spare time to fix it? This is just all kinds of wrong... WTF!