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0 pointsfolknor5y ago0 comments

While I agree that opensourcing would be unlikely to solve any big problems, you frankly can't know. Someone might come along, especially when we're talking in timespans of decades. Probably not. But maybe.

The argument you're using here about the game depending on MS APIs and such is simply not an argument against releasing, and you know that perfectly. It is in fact an argument for releasing it open source. There's no point at which it's ideal to release the code - it can always be cleaner, more optimized, saner, and so forth.

Here[1] is an example of someone using that argument and delaying the release by first a decade, and then saying it probably won't happen at all. It's just complete nonsense - if they were afraid to release their code because it was "ugly" or "not modern", again, that's not an argument.

But obviously I have little to say about your last paragraph, except to reiterate what someone else said and asking if the code could be released without those parts :-)

1: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Lightwor...

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CyberShadow5y ago

> While I agree that opensourcing would be unlikely to solve any big problems, you frankly can't know. Someone might come along, especially when we're talking in timespans of decades. Probably not. But maybe.

For as long as the game has an active community and a competitive multiplayer scene, this is not a risk worth taking.

> The argument you're using here about the game depending on MS APIs and such is simply not an argument against releasing, and you know that perfectly.

That is not what I said.

Since this is getting into strawman territory, I will need to stop this discussion here. I recognize that you have very strong ideals about open-source, which I respect, but my priority is the interests of the game's community, so we will just have to agree to disagree.

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