Orbit: EA's first open source project
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Orbit: EA's first open source project
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Re: Orbit: EA's first open source project
#2I just surprised myself with how low my opinion of EA is. My first instinct was that EA would never be so benevolent as to do anything open-source or give anything back to the community and therefore this had to be an April Fool's joke.
I see some commits on the github are from 5 days ago, though, so now I'm not so sure.
Re: Orbit: EA's first open source project
#3So this isn't exactly true. EA has many open source projects that are not well publicized.
Additionally, EA purchased ESN which also has open source contributions that are maintained after the purchase. It might be fair to say that Orbit is the LATEST EA open source project, but not the first.
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#6I just surprised myself with how low my opinion of EA is. My first instinct was that EA would never be so benevolent as to do anything open-source or give anything back to the community and therefore this had to be an April Fool's joke. I see some commits on the github are from 5 days ago, though, so now I'm not so sure.
I can assure you it isn't an April Fools joke :)
Re: Orbit: EA's first open source project
#7So this isn't exactly true. EA has many open source projects that are not well publicized. http://gpl.ea.com/ Additionally, EA purchased ESN which also has open source contributions that are maintained after the purchase. It might be fair to say that Orbit is the LATEST EA open source project, but not the first.
Yeh. This is BioWare's first open source project but it is not EA's.
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#8The first EA open source project I remember was their own implementation of STL [1] many years ago to deal with STL slow parts.
[1] https://github.com/paulhodge/EASTL seems to be a clone of it and has commits from 4 years ago
Re: Orbit: EA's first open source project
#9So this isn't exactly true. EA has many open source projects that are not well publicized. http://gpl.ea.com/ Additionally, EA purchased ESN which also has open source contributions that are maintained after the purchase. It might be fair to say that Orbit is the LATEST EA open source project, but not the first.
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#10Interested to see how this stands up against alternatives like Akka.