Re: What does releasing the source code mean?

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From: OscartheGrouch
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:16

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Todd wrote:
> With Id software, when the game goes beyond a certain age, they
> release the source code.  What exactly does this mean?
> 
> I loved Quake2, but had problems with it in WindowsXP, then discovered
> Unreal Tournament.  By the time I tried Quake 3, I was too used to the
> feel of UT, that I wasn't able to get into q3.  Or maybe the q3 bots
> are just too good for me.
> 
> But UT has its problems.  If there's a serverpackages line in the
> ut.ini, but the package isn't the game folder, the game will crash.
> After a few games, (with DirectX anyway) the game suddenly stops
> responding to input, and the only thing I can do is wait until it
> crashes (which is almost always does within a minute), or ctrl-alt-del
> out.
> 
> I've been recently getting into Linux, where most everything is open
> source.  But Id only releases the source code for their games after
> the final patch, as far as I know.  Q2 is still 3.20, I believe, and
> Q3 is 1.32?
> 
> 

1.32c to be exact. I forget when the "c" came out, not that long ago it 
seems.

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