I just lost all respect for Timbo, stooping so low as to try something like that.
Tremulous 1.1 was a fun game developed by a bunch of garage hacks that a few people found incredibly fun.
If the garage hacks want to get paid for:
- Forsaking their project for years
- Releasing their source code
- Making a visually awful game based on an incredible game idea
Then they can quit their jobs, raise venture capital, and buy UE3 developer seats themselves.
They haven't done half the work, or taken a tenth of the risks Rota is committing to to not only release this game, but also support himself and his team.
The name Tremulous is not a trademark, it is simply the name of an idea - that idea being an ideal game of humans Vs. aliens. If they truly felt that they were worthy of gaining a profit from everything they have (not) done over the last few years, they would've registered the name of the game as a trademark, and patented the gameplay.
Then again, they don't own any rights to the QA3 engine 1.1 uses, so gaining any profit from it could lead to very big legal trouble on their part. I'm surprised Timbo didn't think of this when he decided to be a greedy little shit to Rota in his email.
The 1.1 team is pretty much dead to me at this point. Douchebags don't make good developers, and that's why I support Rota in the T2 project, AND the use of the name Tremulous 2.