On 5 January 2011 19:38, Michael Menegakis <arx...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Ryan C. Gordon <iccu...@icculus.org> wrote: >> >>> sold one to Urban Terror). Making more problems with GPL3 might be in >>> the same venue. >> >> I doubt it was malicious. While they're willing to sell someone an id Tech 3 >> license, I don't imagine they even notice the revenue on their accounting >> books (and for id Tech 3, I bet this costs more in annoyance than it makes >> them in money). >> >> My belief is that the GPL releases were always John Carmack's thing, and I >> don't think the ideals involved were ever understood by the rest of Id >> Software, let alone Zenimax. >> >> But that's just my opinion. > > Not malicious,business. > > Also, it's quite probably if not fully understood, at least accepted > since a BSD release would completely destroy their business model of > engine sales.
Another fun feature of GPL, if that you make a program X in a company A, and you are fired, you can continue working in X, like if you where never heard of A. This means that if you invest 300 hours of your life into X, that investment will be always with you, even if you move. While if you invest your time in Propietary Engine Z, that cost Y. Then you are screwed if your new company (or you) can't pay the cost of Z. If you get hired in a company to adapt ioQuake3 to some game, and it is never finished, that expertise and man/hours are not wasted, are in your programmer pockets. While if you are hired to work on say, Gamebryo, then, ..well. -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. _______________________________________________ ioquake3 mailing list ioquake3@lists.ioquake.org http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl.
