Cody Taylor

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Softhaus writes “The guys at Blood Frontier have been busy for the last two years working on a new FPS called (surprise) Blood Frontier . This game is an enhanced Cube 2 engine with original artwork and new gameplay (including a kid-mode, which optionally turns off the blood — a nice option for a change). Add the new paintball mode and you have a real ‘game community’ here. The code is all there (complete for you to play with), the team listens to feedback from the community, and the game is great! It’s nice to see these talented guys showing a true free software attitude. They’ve mentioned that the first actual release is scheduled for next Friday. Does anyone know of other great open source games that are truly ‘open?'”

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These games blow you away right from the start!

Jason D. Clinton, maintainer of the GNOME Games module: “I just wanted to continue to praise what the KDE people are doing since I poorly reviewed 4.0. I just installed KDE 4.2 (what is tagged in SVN) and played with it for a few hours. In short: it is amazing! It is so, so impressive. You guys deserve tons of kudos for what you have achieved.”

Hugh Pickens writes “The chief executive of the British Library, Lynne Brindley, says that our cultural heritage is at risk as the Internet evolves and technologies become obsolete, and that historians and citizens face a ‘black hole’ in the knowledge base of the 21st century unless urgent action is taken to preserve websites and other digital records. For example, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as US president last week, all traces of George W. Bush disappeared from the White House website. There were more than 150 websites relating to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney that vanished instantly at the end of the games and are now stored only by the National Library of Australia. ‘If websites continue to disappear in the same way as those on President Bush and the Sydney Olympics… the memory of the nation disappears too,’ says Brindley. The library plans to create a comprehensive archive of material from the 8M .uk domain websites, and also is organizing a collecting and archiving project for the London 2012 Olympics. ‘The task of capturing our online intellectual heritage and preserving it for the long term falls, quite rightly, to the same libraries and archives that have over centuries systematically collected books, periodicals, newspapers, and recordings…'” Over the years we’ve discussed various aspects of this archiving problem.

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