From the reports it is nowhere near proprietary systems, yet. Its a great development though and it shows what a single person can do for the community. We should shower this person with praise!
Even if it crashes and burns people like these should have statues made in their honour.
Very much so. Instead of the jeff & elon trading card game all those tech bros have under their pillow.
“I am intending on open-sourcing the entire stack (PCB schematic/layout, all the HDL, Windows WDDM drivers, API runtime drivers, and Quake ported to use the API) at some point, but there are a number of legal issues,” Barrie wrote in a Hacker News post on Wednesday. Because he works in a tangentially related vocation, he wants to make sure none of this work would break his work contract or licensing etc.
Oh that sucks. There is a chance greater than 0 that he has signed some sort of non-compete that would prevent him from open sourcing his project. But let’s hope his company is like xerox was with the mouse and waves it off, effectively allowing him to continue.
