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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by Animats on Friday January 11, 2019 @12:38PM (#18885168)
OK, what does "more open engines" mean? UE4 is open source, with payments required if you have significant revenue. That's fine. Improbable is closed source running on Google servers with a big markup; you're just the client. Does this mean Improbable is opening up the back end? Or what?
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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by Matterrr on Friday January 11, 2019 @01:29PM (#18885617)
It's not open source, it's source-available, which is almost irrelevant in terms of openness and freedom
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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by Animats on Friday January 11, 2019 @05:13PM (#18887695)
You mean UE4, or Improbable?
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