Someday this place will close, and if it's going to anyway, it would seem incredibly petty for R&N to be like "we're burning everything: no classic EQ for anyone, ever again!" I strongly suspect/hope that that day is still years, if not
decades away, but it has to come sometime.
Unless medical technology surprises all of us, one of the two of them has to die, and when they do I'd like to think that whichever one is left would open source everything, including the database, so that our children's children can still play it on their phone-sheet-displays (or whatever super tiny computing device, with 1,000,000x the power of an 1999 EQ server, we all have in the future
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Until then though, them sharing the code would be a disservice to all players. What little mystery is left to this game is in that code/DB, and if they "revealed the secret sauce" I think the game would feel a bit less magical as a result.
P.S.
Personally, my "super long term plan" for P99 would be to talk the Internet Archive people into running it. Not just because their Wayback Machine let us find all the classic research, but because they have an online computer gaming division devoted to making
old games available online.