Posted 12/30/08 at 10:00:00 AM by David Murphy

As 2008 winds to a close, we're taking a look back at some of the year's highlights in the open-source world.  And what a year it's been!  Google phones and the android operating system finally saw the light.  The semi-popular MMO Myst decided to go entirely open source, the genre's first "conversion."  And Microsoft--yes, Microsoft--decided to embrace open-source development with one hand while chastising it with the other.

We're rounding up all of the year's top stories from every source we can get our hands on.  Click the link and let's get started with 2008's top open-source news!

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Posted 12/19/08 at 12:00:00 PM by David Murphy

Remember Myst Online? You shouldn't. GameTap shut the servers for the fumbling MMO in the beginning of this year, leaving plenty of fans of massively multiplayer online puzzle-solving out in the cold. Until the rights were returned to Cyan Worlds, which promptly promised to resurrect the MMO under the clever acronym of MORE -- the Myst Online Resurrection Experiment. Which was all fine, until funding difficulties killed the project once again. Which has since been resurrected again (surpassing Jean Gray's record), this time as a result of Cyan Worlds turning the entire Myst Online platform over to the open source community.

Strangely, this is the first big announcement from any of the "larger" MMOs that involves open source in any fashion. When an MMO dies, it usually dies for good, regardless of how persistent the fan base is toward resurrecting the fallen title into a working project.

Click the link and come into the strange, shifting world of open-source MMOs!

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