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Originally Posted by zaelu
I think here you are missing the boat by some inches... The moding community is competing with you... either by collective "free will" or not. A sign of it? Think how long it took to major mod packs to include 4.09final.
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What is it, this 'moding community'? What kind of competition do you mean? What is the prize?
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Ghandi had a saying...
First they ignore you... then they fight you... then you win.
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He also said 'Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.' But what does it have to do with anything?
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Originally Posted by zaelu
You are trying desperately to ignore them but, before you launch the new uber duper patch with triggers and the rest "announced but is not sure it will be included" (the old story)
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You're wrong, we're trying to get some good mods into the patch alongside our own work.
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ZUTI's MDS will be far away.
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Zuti is in Daidalos Team FYI.
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And guess what... when triggers do come into view by a royal patch... they will be cannibalized and modified and improved cause this is what "open source is" and this is how a distributed system work.
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That depends... what if the authors decide to protect their work? What will these 'improvers' do about it? Can they do anything on their own? I guess they can. And the ones doing it well are helping us out already. Simple as that.
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Like it or not... IL2 is almost open source... intended or not. You have your chance to collaborate and help IL-2 be better in this "brave new world" or... you can try to obstruct the new normal course and turn your back to what IL-2 fans had worked.
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What do you think we're doing actually? (You see it all in black and white mate... read some more Gandhi please.)
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And this discussion is on topic as it is trying to establish your exact attitude in regard of moding community and they workings.
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Now this is the question. Unfortunately, majority of the 'MODs' won't meet the standarts set for official contents.