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Carmack seems to be a libertarian creep, but he was committed to open sourcing each version of the engine. That ended when MS got involved.
It ended a decade before they got involved. Their first non open source engines was released in 2011, they got microslopped in 2021
His politics suck ass for sure but he is a legendary programmer for a reason