Linked by Adam Geitgey on Tue 31st Aug 2004 20:12 UTC
Despite the impressive list of achievements of open source software, it can be argued that there have not been any world-class games created under the open source banner. Sure, several old games like Doom and Quake have been gifted to the open source community, but there are no comparable original creations in this area. One should not expect this situation to change anytime soon, because the open source development model does not make sense for game development.
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"Do you honestly think that a lot of open-source/Free software programmers do it for money? If you ask a lot of programmers who do F/OSS coding (me being including in that group), you'll soon come to know that (for the most part anyway), many programmers do it solely for reputation's sake: It helps them get a good rep among the hacker community and they do it because they like doing it. And with that said, take a look at what companies like Red Hat, Novell (with SuSE, Ximian, etc.), Apple (with the Darwin-based OS X), Sun (with StarOffice/OpenOffice.org) and IBM (with their Eclipse IDE, etc.) are doing. Things like these are open-source, yet they (the companies) are making money, even profit, on these F/OSS things. Heck, Havoc Pennington, one of the Lead GNOME/Metacity developers, and Alan Cox, one of the head Linux kernel devs, are employed by RH iirc. "
You, apparently unknowingly, made my argument for me. wtg