Re: Half-Life2 Source Leak: what effect will this have?

"Nathan Mates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >Will working programmers see this code as a goldmine to be picked over
for
> >ideas and techniques, or completely ignore it.
>    Quite frankly, I'd want companies to never hire anyone who'd
> obtained such a thing illegally. There'd be some pretty dang serious
> legal ramifications if such code was proven to show up in another
> game. On a personal note, if people can't understand the meaning of
> the word "confidential," they're far more likely to release/leak
> source code on projects they work on down the road.
>
>    Stealing and releasing source code is a kick in the kidneys to
> those that worked on it for so long. Not cool in the least.
>
> Nathan Mates

I totally agree! People who don't mind picking into stolen materials that
can completely ruin years of human work  are not so much better than the
people who stole it to begin with.
There are endless amounts of quality code, full of documentations and
comments to help the student, that looking through a stolen code is not very
neccesary.

I hope the developers and gamers communities will be united behind this one,
catching the thief and proving our integrity. Otherwise companies will start
spending more money on security and hold back on grand projects..

Roy