Tag: open source
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Quake 1’s Re-Release on Modern Platforms
At QuakeCon 2021, Bethesda and id software re-released Quake 1 for Windows, and put it out for the first time on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox One & Series S/X. The Windows version is free to anyone who already owned it on Bethesda’s launcher or Steam. The re-release embeds the original game…
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OpenTTD on Steam
OpenTTD, the open-source game of business transport simulation based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe, is now available for free on Steam for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The developers recommend that new players check out OpenTTD’s manual, a 26-part tutorial series on YouTube, and a short 14 minute video on signaling. This seems like it’s in the…
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Unpaid Labor and Hiring Decisions Based on Free Software Contributions
Ashe Dryden with an older article on the subject of who can give their development time to free or open source software, and who benefits from it: I don’t know that we can easily measure how much labor actually goes into creating the software that we use every day. Software that we not only benefit from…