id Software has a long history of being friendly towards the
Linux and open-source communities. id Software was an early game company
to support the Linux platform and they have ported many titles to Linux,
including their popular Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Quake 4, and Doom 3
titles. Their in-house id Tech game engines have been compatible with
Linux and provide an OpenGL renderer. After the game engines have
reached the end of their market life, id Software has also open-sourced
these engines for use by the free software community. But with id Tech 5
could id Software possibly be open-source to begin with? The web-site
for the Rage game seems to imply that id Tech 5 is in fact open-source.
Read more at Phoronix.
id Tech 5 Engine To Be Open-Source? @ Phoronix
Posted on Thursday, February 03 2011 @ 0:15 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck