Carmack On Q1 Code Release
John Carmack made two posts to /. on of course the Quake1 source code which was just released. This post talks about the confusement on whether code and content are seperated by the GPL license, and this post is about the fact that releasing source code is hard to get past the biz guys, but is just a good thing.
Heh. You don't know how much trouble it is to convince biz oriented people that this isn't just plain stupid.
While thinking in terms of money and profit are probably good ways of understanding the way most things work in the world, don't let yourself become so jaded or cynical to think that it is the ONLY way things work.
I do think The World Would Be A Better Place if all software companies released older code so users still interested could work with it or learn from it. (I'm not holding my breath, though)
John Carmack
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