I thought this was an article about Electronic Arts and a scoop about liquidity issues. Unfortuantely not the case...
Yes, hahaha me too. I clicked happy because I thought "yes, EA a big devil company who no release any game for Linux in their history, thanks karma".
But not.
https://medium.com/@donhopkins/open-sourcing-simcity-58470a2...
>Open Sourcing SimCity, by Chaim Gingold. Excerpt from page 289–293 of “Play Design”, a dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor in Philosophy in Computer Science by Chaim Gingold.
Granted, EA's QA folks had never QA'ed a Linux game before, so I had to walk them through installing VMWare on Windows and gave them a Linux operating system image to test it with, but it did pass QA, and they released it in binary on the OLPC as well as in source code form.
https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis
Here's the contract with all the legal details: