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- 1Astragon closes its Hamm development studio behind Seafarer●Astragon schließt sein Entwicklerstudio: Aus für „Seafarer“-Macher aus Hamm Astragon Entertainment schließt sein Entwick
Publisher Astragon Entertainment is shutting down its in-house studio Astragon Development in Hamm, Germany. The team had most recently worked on the ship simulation game Seafarer. The closure means the end for the studio behind the title, and the news is drawing attention in the German games industry, where studio shutdowns have been frequent in recent months.
- 2Call to tie public funding to open-source code release●Ich wäre ja dafür, dass solche Förderungen an die Bedingung gebunden werden, dass der Code als # OpenSource freigegeben
A debate has emerged over whether government subsidies for software development should require that the resulting code be released as open source. One widely shared proposal argues public funding should be conditional: if a company fails to ship its product within a set period, or goes bankrupt, the funded code must be published under an open-source licence. The discussion follows reports about German developer Astragon, prompting criticism that taxpayer money can disappear into failed proprietary projects with nothing returned to the public.