Wargaming Offers Financial Support to Open-Source Frameworks

Free-to-play publisher Wargaming.net has announced that it will be financially supporting three open-source development foundations - the Linux Software Foundation, the Django Software Foundation and the Wikimedia Foundation.

The news comes following the revelation that Microsoft's next home console, the Xbox One, will not allow independent developers to self-publish on the system. Indie development framework Unity is one of the most prominent in the scene, and it seems like Wargaming wants to raise the profile of other open-source tools, which has a knock-on effect of improving their functionality with fellow developers.

Solution Architect Maksim Melnikau said, "Wargaming relies heavily on a number of different open-source technologies to help us create our legendary MMO universe, whether it's using Linux to power our servers, Django to build our web project frameworks or Wikimedia to help us in our research efforts.

"As a company, we'd like to say thank you to all the developers, testers and users who've helped create these awesome tools and that we're extremely honored to hopefully help them continue their great work moving into the future."