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While it's definitely better than many products they've actually killed completely, abandoning software to the community is often little different from killing

While it's definitely better than many products they've actually killed completely, abandoning software to the community is often little different from killing it. Unless someone forks it and starts maintaining it, it will just slowly rot.

obvi2352 6y ago
On the contrary all games are abandoned to the community eventually. Giving them the source code is a huge help, but even without the community will reverse engineer the game and create an engine from scratch if the game is good enough.