A couple of years ago George Broussard, game designer, said that they
would get DNF out before DOOM 3 because they didn't want to compete.
Well now they're obviously shooting for much later than that. It's
getting pretty silly, they could after released two or three Duke
games by now and be well on their way in development of a fourth and
still keeping high quality standards. I think part of the problem is
they don't know what they want of the project and the other part of
the problem is they're not willing to stand back and accept that they
can't ride each new development wave.

It's impossible for DNF to be worth this wait, it'll be a fine and
dandy game and it'll make money, but it's not worth 8 to 9 years of
development already spent and god knows how much is left.

> Do you know if DNF is based on open standards (the only standards that
> ARE standards) so it will be GNU-Linux/BSD friendly?

It won't be open source, but in true 3D Realms fashion I'm sure
they'll make the game totally editable. Last thing I've read about
Linux from them they're not even going to look at the possibility of
Linux or Apple until after DNF is released on Windows. They will then
outsource to another company for portation if they decide to go for it.