hey, just played through Standoff ep 1-3 and found something interesting. in the Family Reunion mission, when you get to nav 3 after dealing with the Retros at Nav 4 you can see a target named "Unidentified" about a million klicks from your position, at Nav 1. if you auto to Nav 1 instead of goin to back to Firekka nav you can find a Free Trader named "Open Source" that is friendly until it sends a comm that says "Knowledge belongs to the galaxy, you fascist!" then turns enemy and gets destroyed. whats the deal with this ship?
Little Easter Egg or something?
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Kevin Caccamo
Rear Admiral
Yeah. I saw that a VERY LONG time ago. I wondered what it was, and I'm still wondering now what that was.
Nomad Terror
Rear Admiral
How unnecessary.
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
As opposed to all the parts of a super-detailed labor-of-love fan-made Secret Ops total conversion that *are* necessary?
Quarto
Unknown Enemy
It's one of my favourite easter eggs. That voiceover comes straight from Privateer... and it fits the profile of the open source fanatics amazingly well. It also fits the universe extremely well - you are in the Oxford system, so you can imagine that these fellas from the Open Source are data pirates of the kind we saw in the Rhombus mission in Privateer.
Nomad Terror
Rear Admiral
Or just the profile of Vega Strike jerks. :>
I consider myself a die-hard opensource supporter. If there is an opensource solution to a piece of software, I will use it. With my Linux computer down right now (processor failure), I'm using a Mac, but running Camino, an opensource web browser for OS X, while connected to IRC via XChat Aqua, an opensource IRC client, connected to AIM, MSN, Yahoo and ICQ via Adium, an opensource multiprotocol IM Client and playing music via VLC, an opensource media player.
I'm not trying to prove a point other than that unless you consider me undesirable, then you've got the wrong idea of "opensource fanatics," because I am one of them.
I think this community is just way too jaded by the idiots over at Vega Strike who think they can force their beliefs on other people.
I consider myself a die-hard opensource supporter. If there is an opensource solution to a piece of software, I will use it. With my Linux computer down right now (processor failure), I'm using a Mac, but running Camino, an opensource web browser for OS X, while connected to IRC via XChat Aqua, an opensource IRC client, connected to AIM, MSN, Yahoo and ICQ via Adium, an opensource multiprotocol IM Client and playing music via VLC, an opensource media player.
I'm not trying to prove a point other than that unless you consider me undesirable, then you've got the wrong idea of "opensource fanatics," because I am one of them.
I think this community is just way too jaded by the idiots over at Vega Strike who think they can force their beliefs on other people.
Quarto
Unknown Enemy
Well, I don't know... this sounds to me like the "they're not real football fans if they mess up your stadium" argument that you often hear from football fans. When it comes to open source craziness, it certainly isn't just the Vega Strike people (and it certainly isn't all of the Vega Strike people - let's not be too quick to judge them collectively). You may not be like that, but there is certainly a very large group of open source people who do - I won't say they're the majority, but they're certainly very good at giving the world the impression that they're the majority.
In any case, if you don't think our little joke applies to you, then you have nothing to feel offended about
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In any case, if you don't think our little joke applies to you, then you have nothing to feel offended about
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Eder
Mr. Standoff
I may indeed be jaded by a half dozen jerks that are not representative of the entirety of open source supporters. I'm certainly not "in" on their community. 
In my experience, most of these guys keep bragging about open source as if it was some feature that automatically made that software somehow better for all of mankind, when it's really just a different way to develop software, and one that brings little benefit, in itself, to the end-user.
In my experience, most of these guys keep bragging about open source as if it was some feature that automatically made that software somehow better for all of mankind, when it's really just a different way to develop software, and one that brings little benefit, in itself, to the end-user.
Nomad Terror
Rear Admiral
Well I'm not saying that zealots are not fans of whatever they are zealots of. I just think zealots in general are idiots when they cease respecting the rights and opinions of others, regardless of their zeal.
PopsiclePete
Mission programmer
Let's be clear here, this easter egg is all in good fun.
I personally use open source products such as DosBox, Firefox, Filezilla client and server, OpenOffice, Gimp and even Ubuntu for some specific projects. Standoff's installer is made with NSIS, we use Bugzilla internally to do our bug management and are planning to use Subversion along with Tortoise to manage our source files... so it's not like we're open source haters or anything like that. Heck, even HCl's dll patches are some form of open-sourceness: HCl provides the source and after we've added to it we're returning it to him for future projects.
We were rather making fun of the open source fanboys here... you know, those who keep saying we should have choose an open-source engine to make our game, those who keep saying that open-sourceness inherently makes any piece of software better, those who say companies are evil for not giving their source, etc. Also making fun of that open-source way of making things that software should have a zillion customization options but where not much effort is put to make said software coherent and simple at first use.
I personally use open source products such as DosBox, Firefox, Filezilla client and server, OpenOffice, Gimp and even Ubuntu for some specific projects. Standoff's installer is made with NSIS, we use Bugzilla internally to do our bug management and are planning to use Subversion along with Tortoise to manage our source files... so it's not like we're open source haters or anything like that. Heck, even HCl's dll patches are some form of open-sourceness: HCl provides the source and after we've added to it we're returning it to him for future projects.
We were rather making fun of the open source fanboys here... you know, those who keep saying we should have choose an open-source engine to make our game, those who keep saying that open-sourceness inherently makes any piece of software better, those who say companies are evil for not giving their source, etc. Also making fun of that open-source way of making things that software should have a zillion customization options but where not much effort is put to make said software coherent and simple at first use.