Here's a proposal I wrote to Maxis in 2002 asking to license the rights to develop a commercial educational version of SimCity for Linux, based on the multi pla

Here's a proposal I wrote to Maxis in 2002 asking to license the rights to develop a commercial educational version of SimCity for Linux, based on the multi player Unix version, with the support of Columbia University. They didn't bite at the time, but Will Wright and I eventually talked them into actually making it open source in 2008: https://web.archive.org/web/20110611185928/http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/24 https://web.archive.org/web/20110611185928/http://www.donhop... >Educational Multi Player SimCity for Linux Proposal >Submitted by dhopkins on Sat, 2004-02-07 14:27. C Cellular Automata Pie Menu Applications SimCity TCL Game Design >Back in March 2002, Maxis told me they were interested in supporting the educational use of products like SimCity. Earlier, I had developed a multi player version of SimCity, which runs on Linux/X11, and was scriptable in TCL. Educators and researchers from Columbia University, MIT, IBM, Xerox and other educational and commercial institutions were excited about gaining access to this version of SimCity, and adapting it to teach and stimulate students' interest in urban planning, computer simulation and game programming. >So I wrote this proposal and presented it to Maxis, but nothing ever became of it. But recently, Will Wright has been pushing EA to relicense SimCity under the GPL, so the OLPC project can use it. So it may eventually see the light of day! [...] More SimCity stuff from my old Drupal blog: https://web.archive.org/web/20110611162810/http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/66 https://web.archive.org/web/20110611162810/http://www.donhop... https://web.archive.org/web/20111109132608/http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/66?page=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20111109132608/http://www.donhop...