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From: Russell L. Bryan <rbryan@Mail.trincoll.edu>
Subject: Re: So you want to write a text adventure?
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In article <41028@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> Darin Johnson, djohnson@cs.ucsd.edu
writes:
>So post the code and let people port it :-)

Have you ever actually built an application?  Have you ever spent years
working on the source code for a game?  It's not so easy then to just
"post the code."

And since Mike is distributing TADS as shareware, why would he want
everyone to see how he implemented the game?  Understand that a lot of
people could use his algorithms, adjust his parser just a bit, and make
some of their own modifications, thus completely legally creating their
own application while doing a third of the work.  Does that sound like a
very inviting proposition to you?

-- Russ
