Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Philippe-Andre Lorin Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Giving Code Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 01:24:10 +0200 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 31 Message-ID: <36140F1A.B43E6805@hotmail.com> References: <3613857a.4432702@news.playstation.co.uk> Reply-To: palpalpalpal@hotmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: marseille8-74.club-internet.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Wow ! The answer is very simple indeed : people are nice. They help each other when in trouble, they answer when you ask questions, they tell you the path when you're lost... (you know, like in Zelda.) Another reason could be that people love to be loved, and that people love people who give their source code. You admit that some source code was useful to you. Don't you think this answers your question ? I think the question should rather be, why would people not share their sources ? Some people don't. That's their right, but I don't think this does any good to anyone. It's a short-term individualistic vision. (I mean, to withhold the sources ; I understand that in some cases there are good reasons for keeping things secret only for a while.) Secrecy is good for business, not for mankind. - back to the ground :) - Considering that it costs nothing, and that it may be useful to some people, I think I'll give out the sources for my projects when they're finished. This would to my mind be a good way of thanking the world for people whose code helped me. I may be wrong : God, who may very be right, didn't give out the source code for the Universe (although the Genesis gives some hints). P.S. Doom is something I'd be very proud of if I'd wrote it... and the sources are available.