Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Carlos Pieterse" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Giving Code Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 00:41:30 +0200 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 36 Message-ID: <6v10dh$5eg4@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <3613857a.4432702@news.playstation.co.uk> <361392C5.F20A7D@hinge.mistral.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: p301-199.ppp.get2net.dk X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 >You've got to get over this selfish attitude - give it all away. I don't see he's got a selfish attitude, concerning this posting! (calm Craig!) Furthermore there would be several reasons, not giving away your source! Some time ago, I was a hardcore demo programmer. I made several techniques, which I'd been working my butt off for. I gladly gave my sources to some of my friends, so that they could learn from them. But I found that they only modified my routines, and used them without learning anything from it! Not that I bother they used my routines, no it just annoyed me that they didn't use their time on understanding the code and the techniques! -I figure it this way: If you wanna learn some certain coding techniques, you don't want the whole problem-solver of a source put on a silver plate for you! You gotta work for it, you got to struggle with every bit of it, on your own! I won't say that I didn't learn anything from the sources I looked upon, when I started programming for the Yaroze, but most certainly it was not the most important issue, for me learning to program the Yaroze! (-Information was!) What it all comes down to: If someone wants to release their sources, it's very great. But if someone don't, why the heck should anyone be offended by that! Afterall it's their source, which they've been working very hard for! -It's their jugdment, which you can't blame them! Carlos Pieterse