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0 pointssneak8y ago0 comments

Yeah. Even Apple recognized the historic significance of MacPaint and QuickDraw and released those sources.

http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/macpaint-and-quickdraw-...

Carmack released the Quake1 and QuakeWorld sources, and I think also q2 and q3 eventually too.

StarCraft is ancient and the source is of no commercial value to them any longer. They don't benefit from its secrecy, but we do benefit from its release.

Then again, this is the company that sued open source developers who re-implemented a server (bnetd) for one of their proprietary protocols. It was that day I resolved to never give them money again.

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theandrewbailey8y ago

> StarCraft is ancient and the source is of no commercial value to them any longer. They don't benefit from its secrecy, but we do benefit from its release.

They are doing a remaster right now. It would be reasonable to assume that it has at least some of the original code in it. I also suspect that Blizzard has used the same code base and modified it little by little over time.

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