Doom III Source Code Being Released

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Doom III Source Code Being Released

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That's great news! I can't wait to dig in :mrgreen:
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John Carmack is the man.
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Capitalizes while he knows the code can make a profit, then releases back to the community when he knows it is of no objective value to the company any longer...

I think the rabid open-source, communistic, elitist, GNU loving hippies could learn a thing or two from this kind of software sales paradigm. Respect. Hell, I'd buy the game just to support this. :)
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