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How does this provide a reason for a company open sourcing its code?
by mullr 14y ago
How does this provide a reason for a company open sourcing its code?
- renownedmedia 14y agoWhile it doesn't directly make id any money, the community as a whole benefits.
- dwich 14y agoI think renownedmedia is referring to the dramatic improvements made to the open source Quake 1 engine. Admittedly, id Software doesn't profit from those improvements, but it's not like they were making money off of such an old engine anyway.
- dvide 14y agoActually they have been known to profit from community improvements to their old engines as a result of their open sourcing. When they went into the mobile phone games market to create games like Doom RPG, there were already existing doom engine ports to work from, saving them a lot of work. I think that's kinda cool... you never know how these things might benefit you down the road. I think Carmack talked about it briefly in one of the QuakeCon keynotes. Maybe 2006 or something.