Carmack speaks about Doom leak

[DosFreak]

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=44077&cid=4591655

No, this was not leaked on purpose.

Yes, we are upset about it, and it will have some impact on how we deal with some companies in the future, but nothing drastic is going to change in terms of what support is going to be available.

Making any judgements from a snapshot intended for a non-interactive demo is ill advised.

John Carmack

So...was it ATI or not?

[cairnz]

I dont think we will ever know...

[Wombat]

Actually, you must have missed that. It was ATI for sure. Id says that they watermark every build they give to people, and the leaked one came from ATI.

Taken from HTGK, no word on it's validity, but still interesting:

"Xian> ATI leaked it
Xian> oh we will. We are hoping our rep gets fired.
Xian> John sent them a flame mail yesterday basically saying "This has hurt our relationship"
Xian> haha, no
Xian> not really
Xian> they sent us a development laptop with a full build of Unreal Warfare on it
Xian> yep
Xian> Well, we deleted it
Xian> that's a whole can of worms we don't want to get into
Xian> yeah, well, ATI has clearly violated our NDA
Xian> we thought about that.
Xian> but, no
Xian> ATI is on our shitlist right now
Xian> we are not dealing with them until further notice
Xian> no, it's not public chiQ
Xian> We know ATI leaked it. We watermark all releases
Xian> Squiggle: ATI has a relaxed policy about pre-release software. Remeber, they gave us a laptop that had Unreal Warfare loaded on it 3 months ago
Xian> They don't seem to care about strict enforcement of NDA's
Xian> on a positive note, people seem to *REALLY LIKE* the leaked shit"

[thop]

who is this xian?

[P5ycho]

Xian is an idsoftware employee.

[Indiana]

Originally posted by Wombat
Actually, you must have missed that. It was ATI for sure. Id says that they watermark every build they give to people, and the leaked one came from ATI.

Oh yeah, that's a convincing proof, for sure. A short snip of an IRC - well, noone would ever be able to fake that.

When JC says it was ATI or Xian says that it was in fact him that posted such, then it is a proof.

[Znucke]

Originally posted by thop
who is this xian?

Xian is the nickname of Christian Antkow, a designer @ id software...

[P5ycho]

note that the Xian comments are faked...

[CaineTanathos]

so BLAME ATI