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Originally Posted by Dr4z3r
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1 - Giving it away absolutely would not defeat the purpose of their hard work: P99 would still be the only classic server hitting 800 people every night, and would still be the only server with a dedicated GM and dev staff that actually changes and updates things as they come up. It would always be head-and-shoulders above imitators in both quantity of players and quality of play experience.
2 - It disincentivizes others from working hard? Are you serious? Imagine if Leibniz and Newton had said "no, go invent your own damn calculus, moochers!"
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I'm not sure what was so unreasonable about what I said. P99 is really the only server of remotely acceptable quality for anyone who's ever actually played the real game. The other servers are clunky and poorly coded with tons of obvious bugs. Basically giving out the source rewards people who don't work hard and makes their servers more popular than they should be, in relation to the amount of effort they put in.
As for the second point -- have you ever heard of patent laws? The whole point of measures like those is to increase competition and encourage innovation. In the case of P99, not giving out the source is a good policy because it means devs of other servers are forced to come up with fixes of their own rather than waiting on nilbog to do it for them eventually.
I don't think mathematical discoveries are really very analogous to the kinds of discoveries we have patents for (like technology, medicine, etc.), mostly because mathematicians tend to be rewarded more for just making the discoveries, as opposed to the profits they would earn from having a monopoly on who can use those discoveries. Maybe this isn't a really convincing argument. Whatever.
edit: also, I think it was nice of the OP to offer the resources for a pvp server. It's not his fault that he isn't 100% aware of every issue with starting such a server.