He *did* really do OSS. But he don't really do OSS.
> id Tech 4 is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, and is to date the last id Tech engine to be open-sourced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Tech_4
> At QuakeCon 2007, Carmack told LinuxGames that he would integrate as little proprietary software as possible into id Tech 5, as "eventually id Tech 5 is going to be open source also. This is still the law of the land at id, that the policy is that we’re not going to integrate stuff that’s going to make it impossible for us to do an eventual open source release." Carmack resigned from id in 2013, and no source code release followed the launch of id Tech 6 in 2016.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Tech_5#Marketing_and_licens...
Correction: The illustration in the article labeled "Sony’s original Playstation" does not show the original playstation controller.
For comparison purposes that is shown in the following image:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_(console)#/media/F...
> I started programming over 40 years ago because it felt like computers were magic. They feel more magic today than ever before. We're literally living in the 1980s fantasy where you could talk to your computer and it had a personality. I can't believe it's actually happening, and I've never had more fun computing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
I also can't believe it's actually happening. ;)