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Re: Selling Glest
« Reply #25 on: 12 August 2010, 18:52:40 »
Hmm, whatever. As long as it is like under...these terms. (Which I am pretty sure the one person selling it on ebay does not...
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3.) Creative Commons text must be included.
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since some people do have slow connections...although for original glest, it wasn't that big...or gae.
now if we are talking about megaglest...yeah. But, if you have at least 768kbps to 1MB or more, then it won't take too long...

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Re: Selling Glest
« Reply #26 on: 13 August 2010, 01:28:08 »
Well, I would personally prefer it if people sold Glest and all profits went to the Glest Team themselves, not some guys who realized they could make an easy buck by selling someone else's work and taking all the profit.

For example, a few years ago, I purchased an official disc for OpenOffice.org. I had a few reasons behind this. First of all, my internet was too crappy to handle the download, secondly, I really needed a word processor, and this is still way cheaper than Microsoft's version, and three, its a good product produced by a company that has many free programs that we often take for granted. It deserves my donation.

Now, if only the Glest Team had a paypal account to donate to... It does make me wonder, how do they afford hosting this site? If they accepted donations, I'm sure that would help drastically (though hosting costs are as low as possible, even some as low as $5 a month, with good enough specs to host a decent sized site).
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Re: Selling Glest
« Reply #27 on: 13 August 2010, 01:34:47 »
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Well, I would personally prefer it if people sold Glest and all profits went to the Glest Team themselves, not some guys who realized they could make an easy buck by selling someone else's work and taking all the profit.
Yeah, I agree... I guess for megaglest, we need some funds for an actual megaglest site. (same thing for GAE...) and dedicated servers...etc.

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For example, a few years ago, I purchased an official disc for OpenOffice.org. I had a few reasons behind this. First of all, my internet was too crappy to handle the download, secondly, I really needed a word processor, and this is still way cheaper than Microsoft's version, and three, its a good product produced by a company that has many free programs that we often take for granted. It deserves my donation.
Yeah, although I'm fine with word 2000/2003. Anything after that...since you have to pay, and the "basic version" sucks... OpenOffice FTW.

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Now, if only the Glest Team had a paypal account to donate to... It does make me wonder, how do they afford hosting this site? If they accepted donations, I'm sure that would help drastically (though hosting costs are as low as possible, even some as low as $5 a month, with good enough specs to host a decent sized site).
Yeah, I think Martino's (I think he hosts this site) job covers it...don't know if he still has that EA job though.
I wonder how much it costs to host the glest site... hmm...there are some good deals out there...

 

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