From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
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Subject: Re: C++ copyright
Date: 5 Sep 1997 04:19:36 GMT
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What about Quake? ID kept the source "secret". Someone hacked something
and it got out. But everyone's buying Quake, and nobody's snatching the
source and DJGPP off the 'net and compiling their own copy. (Of course, it
won't work without the level-data files! ID has complete copyright control of
that. The quake .exe is free anyways, in the shareware version, which you
can d/l from stomped. What you buy are the 3 further missions.)
--
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Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh