Post: #75

I think we must place some things in its place, like many ppl said that just want take a look at the source just to "bring back old memories" or "because its cool". I understand it, and I'm always wanted take a look on the source too

but ppl are only thinking about personal purposes and forgetting about the rest. Going open source, ppl like Avatar (just an example) will have access to the source and maybe will finally be able to create something that he always wanted. But on the other side, the source now will be public, everyone will have access to this same source too and everyone can use it to explore new exploits and take down Avatar's server. And not just Avatar's server, but every other sphere server, including our servers from everyone writing here

just think about this situation: a noob/lammer/etc got access to sphere source and found a critical exploit that crash the server, so he will create a macro that keep doing this thing to crash the server, and also the macro will automatically reconnect when the server goes back and will keep doing this forever. Result: game over, the server is now under control of this noob and wont be online again until he stop or until someone fix this exploit. Maybe it will be something easy to fix, but maybe something that we will take months to find, or even never find it

so the things are not so shiny as everyone think. Of course some ppl will really help to improve the source, but on the other side, every server will be highly vulnerable to new exploits, which can be just a simple exploit easy to fix or something critical that will destroy the entire server