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From: Peter Berdeklis <peter AT atmosp DOT physics DOT utoronto DOT ca>
Subject: Re: Quake and Allegro 
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On 25 May 1997, Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> Why does ID not want the sources available? You can't steal the game with
> that. You can get a fully-functioning working executable free by download
> from their own site anyway! The part that they charge seventy bucks for
> are the three registered-version worlds, the Shub Niggurath lair, and the
> additional mission packs...

ID doesn't want the sources available because they want to protect their 
intellectual property.  If you had spent 5 or 10 man years finessing 
algorithms and optimizing to the max, you probably wouldn't want your 
competitor to be able to download that code and use it in a competing 
game for a tenth the cost and labour would you?

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Peter Berdeklis
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto