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Celebrate the open source release of the drivers by giving out a price for making a non-free software run on it? Also one that the intended audience of the hard
by Argorak 13y ago
Celebrate the open source release of the drivers by giving out a price for making a non-free software run on it? Also one that the intended audience of the hardware is not allowed to play? Seems a bit odd.
(The Quake 3 engine is open source and free nowadays, but the assets and maps are not, so you cannot run "Quake 3" without using the demo. So "Quake 3" is non-free.)
- angersock 13y agoErm, I'm pretty sure you can use a shareware version (!) of the Q3 assets. Or any of a number of other things. The idTech2 and idTech3 engines are standbys of the open sores community--it makes sense to use them for testing graphics drivers. You are far more likely to encounter a bug in your driver than in those engines.
- Argorak 13y agoEven if free as beer, the demo version is non-free, in an open source sense. Sure, but you could use any of the many projects built on the open Q3 engine that are actually free as in speech. (And maybe child-friendly) Also, to be clear: I find it odd, but still a fun endeavor.
- CamperBob2 13y agoWho, other than certain parents with opinions they can't scientifically justify, says anyone isn't "allowed to play" Quake 3?
- Argorak 13y agoIn Germany, giving Quake 3 into the hands of minors is an offence, for starters. So, in our case, these nice people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Department_for_Media_Harmful_to_Young_Persons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Department_for_Media_H... Like it or not.