QuakeCon Wrapup: John Carmack comments on future of Linux and open source gaming.

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Aug 14, 2007 12:09 PM EDT
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John Carmack, during the Q&A session: "I won't commit to a date, but the Doom 3 stuff will be open source. We still make those decisions even today when we're doing the Rage code when we have decisions about "do we want to integrate some other vendor's solution, some proprietary code into this". And the answer's usually no, because eventually id Tech 5 is going to be open source also. This is still the law of the land at id, that the policy is that we're not going to integrate stuff that's going to make it impossible for us to do an eventual open source release."

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Props to Carmack herzeleid 0 902 Aug 14, 2007 1:16 PM

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