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Quake 3 Source Code to be Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday August 12, 2005 @08:39PM from the way-better-than-any-textbook dept.

fwice writes "QuakeCon has just kicked off and at the end of the keynote speech, John Carmack made an announcement saying that the Quake 3 sourcecode will be released shortly. "

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Quake is lamo by Anonymous Coward · 2005-08-12 20:51 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Quake sux big weeneez.
Payback for banning by Anonymous Coward · 2005-08-12 22:05 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Finally, instead of tediously tracing packets in ethereal to find an exploit, I can find them easily and directly in the code and crack all those quake3 servers that banned me
Re:Licensing by mindwar · 2005-08-12 23:05 · Score: 0, Flamebait

you'd get a chance to actualy see the source code and you fucking nerds start fussing about licences. how many other big games actualy do this?
Re:This is the reason by Aggrajag · 2005-08-13 05:43 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I pay my taxes (which here in Finland means that some of my money goes to the poor and needy) and I have donated to several FOSS projects. Supporting iD software does not exclude me from donating money to other things but I guess that is only obvious to people who can actually think.