Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: James Shaughnessy Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Giving Code Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 15:35:30 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 36 Message-ID: <36139332.70AC@manc.u-net.com> References: <3613857a.4432702@news.playstation.co.uk> Reply-To: james@manc.u-net.com NNTP-Posting-Host: manc.u-net.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) This should start a healthy discussion. So hear's my 0.02c : It's your own choice of course if you want to withold your source code, but I would always question people's reason for doing so. If they're worried an effect or a clever bit of coding will get copied by someone else they should really look at why that bothers them. Is it because they want credit and recognition for it, or do they want it to remain exclusively theirs? Either way they should look at the benefits of sharing stuff and/or realise that life's too short. Or maybe read some Aesop's Fables.. (sp?) If it's a ground-breaking effect that you could sell to a games developer or something then by all means keep it under your hat until you have some sort of legal ownership and rights to, but for the vast majority of code and effects keeping stuff covered can appear a little petty, especially as the Net Yaroze project is not a public access affair and most of us are aware of the source of many effects and ideas. This will lessen of course as more members join up, but at the moment it really is a very small community of coders all with similar goals. Extreme cornyness aside, as a whole if we all work together the overall effect is greater than the sum of the parts. Ugh, sorry, waay too damn corny that, think I'm gonna hurl.. Laters, Jim Tanvir Khan wrote: > I'm just writing in to ask why people give out the source code to > their games? I mean it's very kind of them as Iearned a bit about > coding this way through tutorials and small programs, that's ok as > they are meant to teach, but if there's a game someone of proud of > they should not give out the code IMO. > Don't get me wrong I respect those people who like to share their > talent with the rest. I mean if no one shared their code I would have > no idea of what to do.