Command and Conquer: Tiberian Dawn & Red Alert Released Under GPL3

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These threads are closely related, but might not exactly be duplicates.

The previous post was an announcement that game code will be released, and this more recent thread contains a link to the recently-opened public code repository.

It's a little duplicative, but this thread might be newsworthy too.

The issue from a moderation point of view is whether it would lead to a substantially different discussion. In this case we can be pretty sure it wouldn't. If you want more explanation about how we approach this kind of thing, I've written a lot under the heading "significant new information" (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). The intention isn't to demean any submission or belittle the news in it—not at all. It's just that if you consider the following three things:

1. We're trying to optimize for curiosity (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...)

2. Curiosity and repetition don't go together (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...)

3. Frontpage space is the scarcest resource on HN (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...)

... it follows that we need to minimize repetitive threads on the frontpage.

Ok, great - I'll read up on those links. Thanks for the explanation.

If you read them and have a question that isn't answered there, I'd like to know what it is. I'm finding that the answers have been pretty stable for a while now, which makes me feel like we're converging on something that could be turned into, say, a moderation FAQ.

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