On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Daniel Gibson <metalcae...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:38 PM, 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. > > AFAIK they're not selling engines anymore, their engines are only used > internally at Zenimax, at least from id tech 5 on. > Also, as ryan already said, the engines that are opensourced don't > make them much money anymore anyway, so their business model wouldn't > be affected by putting id tech 3 (or older) source under BSD license. > Yeah sure, Urban Terror got a Q3 license, but I don't think it was > expensive (or they couldn't have afforded it).
Well, there's been a slow down in developments after 2005. On one hand the struggle to make transistors as fast as before smaller, on the other the economic crisis, right now becoming better than Doom3 is much harder. The focus appears to be centred on algorithmic improvement or dumping as much as possible on multiprocessing (that reaches ridiculous levels, a lot believe standard home CPUs in 2013 are going to have 8 or 16 cores, multithreading that is coded well is going to beat everything). _______________________________________________ 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.
