Comments on: TransGaming Expands Reselling Program

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:01:37 +0000

from a guy that wears a shmooshed hat on his head and everyone knows him as Mr State.

Get thee behind me Statan, you desire the things of man and not man itself!

[blockquote]I remember that transgaming said they would open source the code when they got 50.000 paying subscribers.
I started to subscribe for that reason. But this statement has not been made in a long time, and it can not be found on their current webpage.
Crooks and liars I’ll tell ya.[/blockquote]

By:

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:22:13 +0000

They made the 20,000 subscriber promise before the wine license changed. Once that happened all bets were off.

By:

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:09:25 +0000

That would mean that they care about their subscribers financial information…

By:

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:04:44 +0000

[q]I remember that transgaming said they would open source the code when they got 50.000 paying subscribers.
I started to subscribe for that reason. But this statement has not been made in a long time, and it can not be found on their current webpage.
Crooks and liars I’ll tell ya.[/q]

http://web.archive.org/web/20010330235507/www.transgaming.com/subscriptions.html

[i]Once 20,000 subscribers are signed up, TransGaming will release all its current code under the Wine license.[/i]

It’s been over 5 years now since they promised to open source their code at 20,000 subscribers. They don’t publish numbers on how many subscribers they currently have, but I’m going to have to agree with your Crooks and liars statement.

So much for believing in the Open Source movement.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010302100318/http://transgaming.com/

By:

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 05:24:06 +0000

I remember that transgaming said they would open source the code when they got 50.000 paying subscribers.
I started to subscribe for that reason. But this statement has not been made in a long time, and it can not be found on their current webpage.
Crooks and liars I’ll tell ya.

By:

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:09:00 +0000

Perhaps this explains why the claims that they are working on their web store have suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Incidentally, I wish they would protect their initial subscription page with https.