Rise and fall of OpenWOW

m4rku5 recruited few guys to continue work on WSD, and he has never been seen after that. At that time only Joker was the on the team besides him (Power2All hung around, but wasn’t a developer) at that time Joker started to recruit more guys for m4rku5, but since he never came around ever again we decided to just form our own team and change the name to OpenWoW and thats how it all started. Open-source minded coders joined together and started to completely rewrite Team Python’s core. Meanwhile there were WOWD coding underground. It was supposed to have these two emus merged, because OpenWOW had excellent core and WOWD was flowing with features. After the rewrite was completed, Blizzard started with signing affair again and forced OpenWOW team to stop, it was just before the merge was supposed to happen. Blizzard’s lawyers came to P2A’s house to shutdown OpenWOW and wowdev site he owned. Rest well OpenWOW team, hope you had fun and hope you don’t suffer from your doings. Thank you. And hoping MaNGOS (mentioned later) guys gonna take from you, as is was known OpenWOW has the best core

Expect an update here soon

Power2All to attacks on OpenWOW

Blizzard is attacking us. Its attacking us so badly that I fear, we cannot continue on this project. Those guys threatened almost every member of our team, and, since everybody knows that in court wins the one that has more money, they have signed some fascist agreement which says that they cannot do any further work on any WoW server. And since this is a collective work, we cannot continue on it since they broke the collective. There’s a lot of fear, doubt and paranoia even amongst us since the contract they are required to sign requires to inform Blizzard about any further development done by other team members, and also to give them any information they have on other team members.

This is an exact picture of what were happening in the USSR with the guys that were playing against the system. Our work is against the American money-making system. It’s against the system that allows selling drugs, but prohibits distributing them for free. Games are just like drugs (that’s a proven fact, especially for young people), the only difference is that you can quit when you’re either out of money or of interest; for many people this lasts years; many years they have to pay. I must admit this kind of drugs is relatively cheap; that’s not because game makers are so kind, but because the drugs they’re selling are not very much addictive and if they ask too much, many will quit. Besides, this is a mass product and even if you charge one million people for a dollar, you got a million dollars.

Also I would like to point again that our work is LEGAL from the point of view of EU and other laws; the only questionable country is US — because of DMCA, and other laws that were lobbied by big software companies in order not to allow concurrency from smaller groups of developers.

Note for Bliz lawyers reading this: All this said is only MY OWN point of view. I haven’t discussed this post with other team members as most of them signed your inhuman agreement.