Thank you! I'm convinced the AAA video game industry of the 90s and 00s crippled itself by religiously opposing most open source. This forced every company to

Thank you! I'm convinced the AAA video game industry of the 90s and 00s crippled itself by religiously opposing most open source. This forced every company to write its own graphics engines, physics engines, and foundational platform libraries. At the local, per-company level, these anti-open-source policies may have made sense. However, they had some global effects: * the industry wasted tons of money reinventing solutions to solved problems. * to start a AAA game studio, you must license or invent graphics, physics, threading, etc., too expensive for long-tail innovation. By leveraging and encouraging open source, you can lift all boats, improving the world in which we compete. In short, on my deathbed, leveraged open source means a lot more than closed source would.