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Quake 3: Arena Source GPL'ed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the flawless-victory dept.

inotocracy writes "At John Carmack's Quakecon 2005 keynote he promised that the Quake 3 Arena source code would soon be released-- turns out he wasn't just pulling our leg! Today it was released, weighing in at 5.45mb, it makes for a quick download and a whole lotta fun. Developers, start your compilers!"

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  1. Fileshack. lol by matt+me · · Score: 0, Troll

    They decide to release the source code under an open source community to the free software community, by uploading it to a pay-service FTP server. Genius. Presumably BitTorrent wasn't compatible.

  2. bullshit? by mnemonic_ · · Score: 0, Troll

    It sounds like neither of you (bani and PsychicX) have any idea of what you're talking about. Both of you took a 30 second look at the Q3 code and gave different baseless statements shortly after. PsychicX is just a drooling Carmack fanboy, while you're (bani) just an elitist contrarian. It's a shame we can't get any informed opinions of the code, for the time being.