[MUD-Dev] Commercial value of RP

[Raph & Kristen Koster]

>On Fri, 9 Jan 1998 07:29:54 PST8PDT
>Koster, Raph<rkoster at origin.ea.com> wrote:
>
>> More business realities: there's a Linux version. It's only
>> available in-house. It's faster than the Win95 version too. :P
>> There's also a Mac version that was never finished, despite being
>> close. Why were they not completed? There's a question as to whether
>> we could make back the cost of the box and CD with a Mac
>> version--and I would LOVE to see it done, because I like Macs and
>> own one. And the Linux version raises issues of tech support and
>> distribution that a large corporation doesn't want to deal
>> with. *sigh*
>
>Was any consideration given to making them freely available on the net
>as unsupported-use-at-your-own-risk?

Yes, but this is also something that a company can be reluctant to do for
various reasons. You do still get the folks who want some degree of
support; you also get some degree of PR hit for not supporting it; plus you
HAVE to support it to some extent in UO's case since you have to make sure
that patching and the like occur seamlessly regardless of client platform.
Let's not forget that a full UO distrib is pretty large. :)

-Raph

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