posted 03-31- 05:12 AM            

Whats NDA? I take it when he talks about releasing the engine then thats not for the likes of the people in this community who do their own work for this sim but like a license type thing that people will have to pay for? Aahh well I'll pay for an update made from the engine under license by some 3rd party people if I have to , its worth it if it fixes the bugs. But maybe I'm all confused as I dont know what NDA is and the "engine" , is that the source code that people have been talking about needing to fix some of the bugs?

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posted 03-31- 07:13 AM               

The code is a powerful tool. One that could be used to write malicious viruses (was that a mission you downloaded, or a trojan horse?), bad programming (imagine the game crashing as several different versions of code go into play), cheats (hmmmm, I can't beat Tailslide, so I'll make a cheat,) or an entire new product (Air Sim- it looks like, flys like, and feels like SDOE, but its free!). They have a interest in protecting their asset since the code is the basis of all the sim projects they have planned at this time.

Imagine you had created OS that ran all widow and mac hardware, but used negligable system resources, and made systems run 30% faster. You know its a gold mine! You can sell it to mac users, windows users, and join the two systems to run anything. You could be altruistic and put it out on the net for free. But, if its how you plan to feed your family and make a living, you'd probably copyright and patent it. Then encrypt it and sell it. Hoping nobody ever cracks the sorce code to release it to the public, stripping all the gold out of your mine, leaving you with a dark hole in the ground.