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Highlander wrote:

<snip john carmack quakecon 2005 keynote>

how could the people asking questions left steam out
they had to ask john about steam and i bet he would reply
"i hate steam!"

but there was an obvious direct criticism targeting valve
when john says:

> "I do get a little irritated about people getting too
> proprietary about their addition to the code when it's
> built on top of what other people have put far more effort
> into."

as for the disappointments...
first john talked too much about consoles and then he said
he would be coding for them directly
that's bad news although he told he still prefers the pc
for its openness and freedom and for him its still the best

and by far the best of it all was the news quake3 source
code will be released under gpl
these are the great quotes:

> "And I'm still waiting for someone to have the nerve to do
> this, to actually like ship a commercial game with the
> source code on the CD. I mean, that would be really cool."

> "But if you work with the original pristine source from id,
> you can always come back to us and say "well we developed
> all of this with the GPL source code, we want to ship a
> commercial product, but we don't want to release our source
> code, so we'd like to buy a license", and we do that at
> reasonably modest fees, we've done that some with the
> previous generation, and that's certainly an option for
> Quake 3."

> "I do hope that one of these days that somebody will go and
> do a budget title based on some of this code, and actually
> release the source code on the CD."

quake3 source code under gpl is just great! fantastic!
and its an enormous opportunity for pc games
lets hope developers know how to grab this opportunity cause
its an historic one

this really shows the enormous distance someone like john carmack
which is a giving and friendly guy has to those greedy bastards
at valve

--
post made in a steam-free computer
i said "NO" to valve and steam