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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 4323070" data-attributes="member: 6562">Open secret of open source: people don't get paid to write it.People get paid to do all sorts of things with it, and sometimes they get concessions from their employer for being a primary author, but hardly anyone gets paid directly just to work on open source projects.If you aren't doing it out of the love of doing it... well, don't look for compensation other than the joy of doing it. You might get some, you probably won't.However: it turns out programming is fun! And there are lots of people who will do it just for the joy of doing it. IMHO, game design is similarly fun.- - -However, it should be noted: we're nearing a game-design tipping point. As Mike notes, there are some amateurs whose understanding of game design is comparable to that of a 20-year veteran, and yet these amateurs are just doing stuff for fun. This is the pool of talent that the RPG Linus will draw from.There's just one last thing missing: a mathematical test harness for the rules.See, in software, people can introduce bugs. So you don't just take any guy's code and add it into your kernel. You need to see what effect the new code would have on the operation of the system. Compilers, simple sanity tests, and actually having the damn thing boot up all checks.We don't yet have a clear understanding of what such a test framework would look like, but it's not impossible to imagine some of the things it would test -- in a way, simulating a fight is like simulating a basket of correlated securities in a crisis, watching as some default and others survive at the other's expense.- - -Anyway, I think I had a point here... oh yeah:1/ Don't expect to make money from open any-damn-thing; and2/ Coherent leadership demands BLOOD AND IRON! -- er, I mean, a well understood "goodness metric".Cheers, -- N</blockquote>

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