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Re:Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS... by shakna on Saturday October 12, 2019 @09:23PM (#21237608)
id [0] seems to get by fine by open sourcing their game engines.

And doing so has lead to a number of ports that wouldn't exist otherwise.

The artists are still compensated fine. Because they separate the engine from the assets. If you want to play the original game, fine, but own it.

But now the community gets to port the game easier to a new platform. Which is one of the reasons that it's easy to port DOOM to every platform out there.

[0] https://github.com/id-Software

Re:Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS... by dangus on Sunday October 13, 2019 @09:16AM (#21240195)
They open source the product long after it has any revenue potential.