![]() Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Thai, Malaysian and Philippines servers emerged. Many things have changed since 2003: iRO is no longer the only non-Korean RO server. Prominent developers at this time were: xlr82xs, blueviper22, junq, Dn4cer, brokencard and myself. But Kore was as good as dead - Kura left the scene shortly after. The original Kore website came back online, this time hosted on SourceForge (just like OpenKore). The "Open" part of OpenKore emphasises OpenKore's open source nature. So if I ever leave RO or get hit by a bus, the other people can pick up where I left without having to reinvent the wheel over and over again. Multiple people could update the OpenKore website.Through the use of collaboration tools like CVS (kindly offered by SourceForge, which hosts many open source projects), many people could work on OpenKore at the same time, thus increasing efficiency greatly.The OpenKore project encourages developers to unite and to cooporate.OpenKore would not make the same mistake that Kore and Skore made: So I teamed up with the other Skore contributors, and founded the OpenKore project. I had a lot of experience with open source project management, and it surprised me that neither Kura nor Solos used collaboration tools such as CVS. OK OK, I'll go to the point! Obviously things couldn't go on like that. So lots and lots of people tried the version on the download page, which didn't work, and came to the forum to complain that it didn't work - without reading the sticky topics on the forum which link to Skore-revamped. The download page on the Skore website was never updated though.So the modified Skore version, which was called Skore-revamped by the authors, was released by posting download links in 'sticky' topics on the forum! A fix was released by those contributors, but only Solos had access to the website (where the download page resides). There were still contributors on the Skore forums.As a result, not only could bots easily die, they also kill steal people. Bots couldn't detect some players and monsters. iRO was upgraded to Comodo, which broke a lot of bots. ![]() To make matters worse, after a few months Solos mysteriously left - he probably lost interest in RO. As a result, more forks appeared, this time based on Skore. Skore seemed to have replaced Kore, but Solos had the same flaw as Kura: he didn't really merge contributions back into the main program. His project management skills could use some improvements though. His technical skills were very high, and he wrote most of Kore's codebase. This is not to say that Kura isn't a brilliant guy though. Soon skore became the most popular Kore fork. So all the users who used Kore moved to skore instead. For some unknown reason, Kore's website went down for months, and Kura was unavailable during all that time. There were other forks, but not much is known about them. For example, one of the contributors, Solos, made his own version called Solos Kore ( skore for short) which includes his own improvements. No, I'm not talking about that kind of fork! The forks I'm talking about are separate versions of Kore, maintained by other people. As a result, many forks of Kore emerged.Ī few prominent Kore contributors at the time were: Kura, Karasu, Solos. It shouldn't come as a surprise that many contributors were not happy about that. Most contributions are just laying on the forum gathering dust, while Kura only merged a few contributions back into the main Kore program. Kore had one fatal flaw though: Kura, the original author who wrote Kore, didn't do anything with most of the contributions. ![]() It encouraged people to contribute improvements back into the community, so that everyone can benefit. It may sound crazy to some people, but that is the sole reason why OpenKore exists today, and why I'm maintaining OpenKore. Now, what was open source again? Open source means that anyone can view, modify and redistribute the source code. Of all bots, Kore was unique: it was the only open source bot. The name looks so much like OpenKore! Surely it has got something to do with OpenKore. You must have noticed Kore in the above table.
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