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From: matth@bellatlantic.net (Matthew Hulett)
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Subject: Re: Giving Code
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 07:18:19 GMT
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In life, humans are often confronted with the spiritual conflict
between being competitive, and being generous and giving.
Some find a harmonious balance, while others become imbalanced at
either extreme.

The moderate position and attitude I have encountered, and embraced,
is that  members wish to share their source code to be generous and
help others. If someone writes the next Tomb Raider, I suspect they
might keep that to themselves for a time. But, in general, we are at a
level at which there are no great sums of money to be lost by sharing.

We all benefit from the sharing of code in the end. Just because
someone might produce a better game with some snippets of your code
does not reduce the quality of your work. We all stand on the
shoulders of others. If no one shared code, well, a lot of us would
not be very successful.

The gaming market is huge, and growing. There is no call to be too
aggressive and competitive.

-Matt