And look at you now. You don't even have a name...

I already am...

Really, who is surprised by this? What's the cost of an ad and fake credentials compared to getting a chance to infect millions of computers?

Given the amount of work that goes into replacing all content of the game, I wouldn't call it a "free ride" even if it did get to use the same code.

However as has been established, the gamecode is being redone based on non-GPL sources to ensure that nothing is "ripped off", even though this means the game may differ more significantly than intended, further fracturing the community of players.

The relicensing of the GPL gamecode for the game was intended to preserve the authenticity of the gameplay experience, not to harm anyone, but since a few of the contributors don't want to play ball, the ball goes elsewhere.

I only want to point out that in a recent analysis of the DarkPlaces engine source, 1.29% of lines that are not license headers or blank lines, have never been modified.

Put another way, the engine is no more than 2% Quake1 codebase, and a vast majority of the code was written by me, especially the platform independent core portions.

Tracking down contributors when there is one primary author of the entire codebase, who knows almost every line of it by memory, is not as hard as it sounds.

Very true words, especially with respect to the entertainment industry, and with positive and negative aspects.

The engine has been licensed as non-GPL for Sony Playstation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360, these are very closed platforms and the game had no chance of reaching them under GPL, publishers would not touch it.

IllFonic actively promotes the GPL Nexuiz for all operating systems.

The console game code is being started fresh now that GDC is over, no GPL claims can apply to it.

Note: Nexuiz 1.0 was to be a commercial game in the first place, but was GPLed for the enjoyment of everyone, this deal pertains to the name and concept, not the community enhancements that occurred after the original release.

I wasn't expecting that...

Honestly, were I writing malware, the first thing I'd do after something like that came out was try and figure out how to disable it. You can't trust anything on a compromised computer.

Sure, it might catch a few. Most likely the user will just ignore the warning, hoping it'll go away; then once the malware has an update that disables the warning, it will go away. Problem solved.

About the only thing that will fix the current spyware/malware problem would be smarter computer use and privilege separation. But in my experience users will click on anything just to get their shiny pointers.

There is a good meta-analysis on Nuclear EROEI here: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3877.

The problem is nuclear is super energy intensive in the fuel production stage. Coal has a better EROEI.

I totally agree; I too was left very concerned after reading his thoughtful and thorough analysis. And I'm really disappointed that (practically) no one on Slashdot took a look at it. Especially after reading his analysis of confirmation bias and so on, the knee-jerk responses on this thread are particularly disheartening.

Trademark != copyright, dude.

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That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

"War on Terror" is largely a US/UK initiative. Other Western countries (and GP talked about "the West", not "US") don't have much to do with that as a whole - only the more meaningful parts, such as trying to stabilize Afghanistan.

Yet, if you turn to the guys on the other side of the barricades - what are they saying?

Bomb, bomb Denmark!
Bomb, bomb Germany!
Bomb, bomb France!
Bomb, bomb Spain!
Allahu Akbar! ...
Nuke, nuke Denmark!

If you can explain how U.S., or invasions of Arab countries in general, have anything whatsoever to do with opinions expressed by Muslims in the video linked above, I'm all ears.