Patent Issue Delays Doom 3 Source Code Release

An anonymous reader writes "id Software is still planning to release the Doom 3 source this year, but it's been delayed by a patent issue that's causing John Carmack to personally rewrite some of the code. The patent issue in Doom 3 concerns the Carmack's Reverse algorithm and has led Carmack to rewrite it in the open-source Doom 3."

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Re:About the software patent-- IBTT

[Surt]

Yeah, he 'independently' invented it, just a couple of months after it was presented at a conference that he no doubt would have heard about it from.

Sure.

Sounds exactly like the kind of abuse the patent system was designed to prevent to me.