Update My opinion on this whole matter is that Red Hat did the right thing. Bob's opinions on why RH wouldn't want to publish Id's stuff are fair. I'm sorry this seems to be interpreted as negative, my intent by posting this was merely to help John find another Linux Publisher. Beyond that, it had phone numbers that weren't meant for publishing. Red Hat doesn't want distribute Id's games because They are trying to be a more serious company, and games arent where that is right now.
Quake is binary only, and RH is trying to distribute only open stuff.
My intent of posting this story was merely to help John find an alternative publisher for Linux Quake, and I hope he's successful. I want to see a shrink wrapped Linux Quake available at Babbages right next to the windows version more than anything. My apologies again to everyone involved. I've proved once again that I'm human, and error prone. The following comments are owned by whoever posted them.