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Animats on Jan 11, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ...

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?

Matterrr on Jan 11, 2019 [–]

It's not open source, it's source-available, which is almost irrelevant in terms of openness and freedom

Animats on Jan 11, 2019 | [–]

You mean UE4, or Improbable?

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