Volca on 21/11/2008 at 08:23
That is a good idea, actually. It's worth trying. I'll consult this with the rest of the group and probably will contact them.
To say the truth I didn't know that Eidos released anything under GPL.
massimilianogoi on 21/11/2008 at 08:36
If they realize something on GPL, how can they survive?
I am a little against the GPL in the game, because real games costs a lot of money and efforts: realizing in GPL it's equal to giving free the game, without having the return of the efforts done to create it. Behing a game there is a lot of artists that must be payed for their incredible works.
Volca on 21/11/2008 at 08:39
You made a shortcut. If such firm releases the code, it's always for the titles that are not in the stage of massive income, and their source code is not usable in further development.
massimilianogoi on 21/11/2008 at 08:51
Yeah, it's true, but what if you want to buy that game?
You prefer spend money that make a gain to the company or download it free in a opensource site? I think everyone would download it free..
Ok, there's always to say that someone could download illegally download it via p2p, but that's a cowardly, in my opinion. Nothing more wrong than downloading game illegally.
Volca on 21/11/2008 at 08:53
Source code != whole game. Example: Quake source code was released, but not the assets. This means you still have to buy the game if you want to play it.
massimilianogoi on 21/11/2008 at 13:12
Uuuuhhh! ok! :)
Now looks more fine...
Myagi on 21/11/2008 at 15:29
Quote Posted by malau
Apparently lost of assets were moved around /
hidden in 2005 when that aggresive takeover bid was tabled by 'Elevation Partners' (the Bono one)
and so probably only key personnel know the exact locations of these key assets
for some reason this amused me, you'd think it was about nazi treasures, holy grail, crashed ufo's majestic 12 or whatever. There's enough in there for a Thief 4 in modern setting, T4: quest for the dark source.
pavlovscat on 21/11/2008 at 16:39
Sounds like they are just asking for Garrett to sneak in & steal his own code!
Peanuckle on 21/11/2008 at 18:14
Could we all donate 5 dollars to a fund and post a public advertisement to buy the source code from whoever has it? Then they'd find us.
ZylonBane on 21/11/2008 at 18:50
The primary benefit of gaining access to the source code would be patching up all the bits that don't play well with modern systems-- the antiquated disk space check, CPU affinity, and most of all the 16-bit renderer.
But I'm not holding my breath.
