Open Source 3D Games

[Justin Dugger]

Indeed, it might be required reading for the topic subject. I recall
reading it when it was initially published, reading the Slashdot
replies and comments that pretty much forced ESR to include the
addendums.  You might say it's a condensed version of my post, which
means I've failed as an author. =(

On 8/16/05, Josh Charles <josh.charles at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Of course, there is also the concern over cheating made simple with
> > open source.  The strongest protection q3 has at the moment isn't
> > PunkBuster, but the fact that there's bigger targets to go after, like
> > Halflife2 and Doom3.  Some people are even of the opinion that when iD
> > releases the code, it destroys what remaining community these games
> > had by inviting cheaters to rampage amongst the servers.
> 
> Eric Raymond Wrote an excellent essay dealing with this issue when the
> Quake 1 source code came out.  It's a great read:
> 
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/quake-cheats.html
>