[quake3] Domain name

Aaron Gyes floam at sh.nu
Sun Oct 15 00:53:32 EDT 2006


I am pretty sure there are no plans to distance the project away  
from  icculus.org. I think the only issue was simplicity and  
rememberability. This is an icculus.org project just like the rest, I  
am pretty sure.

On Oct 14, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Erik Kloppenburg wrote:

> Matthew R. Dempsky wrote:
>> If the point is to distance the project from icculus.org, why stick
>> with the name ``ioquake3''?  Will the ``io'' prefix be retconned to
>> mean for something else?
>
> Good point. Another name might be nicer. But then everything has to  
> be renamed again ;) Dunno how ioquake3-devs feel about that.
>
> I didnt like the freequake-idea cause it gives the false assumption  
> that you can get full quake3 for free on the site. Openquake might  
> be a little confusing with openarena, but I like it a lot :)
>
> I do realise Im not a dev, so I have nothing to say in this matter.  
> I hope it's okay to give my opinion though.



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