GtkRadiant History
August 25th, 2004 by CrusaderBernd Kreimeier sent in some additional clarification regarding the early history of the GtkRadiant id-engine editor project, which came up during our recent interview with Timothee Besset:
For the record, a nit or two: it was not my decision that “Loki needed to havetools available”. Neither was it my call to “commit resources”. However, afterthe decision had been taken that Loki would fund work on a map editor, I didpush for a Gtk port of id’s original editor or a derivative, instead ofattempting to write an editor from scratch. Had I known Loki’s true financialsituation, I would have opposed this and other non-profit efforts in far moreforceful terms. More importantly: the person that did the bulk of the work on GtkRadiant wasLeonardo Zide (of LeoCAD fame, http://www.leocad.org/). Leo spent about a yearputting GtkRadiant together. He worked under contract for Loki, and unlike theregular Loki employees who lost one to two months worth of salary, he wascheated out of almost every dollar Loki owed him. Without his work, I doubt thatGtkRadiant would have ever come into existence.
August 26th, 2004 at 1:49 am
Why do people bad mouth loki they make great linux games and are an a+ company imo. I don’t see anyone else porting big name titles. How about all you stfu and stop caring about who pays money its not like people actually buy games anyways so who cares if the companies pay. Shit needs to get done.
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Gentoo user since 1991, longer than u I bet.
My CFLAGS are -O4 -funroll-loops -funsafe-math-optimizations -mfp-math=sse -msoft-float !!!
August 26th, 2004 at 3:21 am
What happened to Leonardo Zide? Does he still contribute? Disgruntled?
August 26th, 2004 at 7:44 am
floam, you’re a tool.
August 26th, 2004 at 10:11 am
This is an obvious astroturfing campaign.
August 26th, 2004 at 3:21 pm
All of Loki’s problems were the cause of one person; President of Loki: controlled by Scott Draeker.
The then President of Loki transmitted lies to Loki employees and engaged the Linux market at the responsibility of the many distinguished persons working on the software.
Scott Draeker walked away with cash in his pocket, the people whos persons were employed at Loki walked away months upon months at loss of their hire. The only concept which angered me was the Loki President’s use of the Internal Revenue forms to divert tax liability at the mis-comprehension of the employees. I myself know how to discharge taxes properly and know that the W* forms from the IRS are incorrect and an affidavit is a correct substitute; I thought it sadening that Scott Draeker’s knowledge of law was utilized in capacity of the President of Loki to hurt the employees to the mis-leading of discharging non-enumerated taxes.
Mal-management! Wickedness!
Sincerily,
The Alpha Troll
August 26th, 2004 at 3:49 pm
I seem to have upset a lot of people.
Sorry. Please don’t hate me too much.
I thought people only read lg.com for the trolls?
–floam