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From: Ben Greear <greear@cyberhighway.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:56:21 -0700 (MST)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Ben Greear (greear@cyberhighway.net) http://www.primenet.com/~greear
Author of ScryMUD: mud.primenet.com 4444
http://www.primenet.com/~greear/ScryMUD/scry.html
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Richard Woolcock wrote:
> Greg Munt wrote:
> >
> > This is something I've wanted to post on, for a number of weeks. My own
> > project will be shoving out all of the development docs onto the web:
> > specification, design, testing, etc. Shoving out the source code would be
> > a natural extension of this. BUT.
> >
> > I am wary of what will happen to my code - what it will be used to create
> > - once I have made it available to the general public.
>
>
> I did consider deliberately putting in a number of compilation bugs to
> put off the totally clueless (ie you would have to make some fixes before
> being able to compile and therefore run it), but the trouble is I just KNOW
> that someone will fix those bugs and release their own 'version'.
I'd go back door all the way :) Clueless ppl won't find it, even with the
source before their eyes... Someone would probably fix it. And they
might be a little ill at ya too!! Then they could go in all the back
doors they pleased...hrm..
Maybe not such a good idea :P
>
> Opinions please?
>
> KaVir.
>
>