Closer to mainstream

numa at thenuma.com numa at thenuma.com
Wed Apr 9 18:53:27 CDT 2003


I play a lot of online games, and my subscription to fileplanet has paid
for it self MANY times over.  No more searching for mirrors on the latest
games patch.  And cool shit like Karate-Bikini-Babes.

Kris

> Peter Amisano wrote:
>> combat mods...Red Hat 9 is listed for download on one of the biggest
>> game
> ...
>> Hopefully we will start to see all games making the switch.
>>
>> http://www.fileplanet.com/ for the download.
>
> To be fair, fileplanet is a pay-for service. They make money on the
> quantity of downloads that go through their site. If they can put up a
> 2.5 GB set of files, they increase the size of their free download cues
> by a certain number of hours and -- presumably -- get more people to
> subscribe to their service to avoid those cues.
>
> But this is still an important developement. The real challenge to Open
> Source is finding ways to make it profitable to maintain, support,
> develope and distribute. If another company has found a way to do that,
> it's good news.
>
>
> --
> Jason Clinton
> I don't believe in witty sigs.




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