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Originally Posted by Stijn
Yes, you're wrong. It's called "shareware". It's a method where you give people part of the game for free so they can try it out and let them purchase the rest if they like it. A very big portion of PC games from the JJ1 and pre-JJ1 era did it this way.
Regarding the source code: It's far more complicated than just putting the .c files in a zip and uploading it to J2O. There's legal issues involved, it was made by separate companies that are now more or less competitors, it's questionable whether the full source code even still exists, they'd have to get permission from all parties involved, there's probably contracts with companies that licensed the source code, they'd need to decide on an appropriate license to distribute it under, and so on. There's no gain in it for Epic (except some goodwill perhaps), and there's not quite a huge demand for it either.
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Okay, okay, I know what's shareware and I know about the legal issues (I had given a brief read to previous threads about the source code). But I'm not criticizing the advertisings themselves, I'm criticizing HOW they were made: that game was made for children, I find it kinda immoral to put those kind of messages in a game like that, knowing what kind of psicological impact they would have on the young players. If what Evilmike said is true, things are a bit different, though.
About the source code, I know that it's not as simple as it may look at first, but I also know that Epic was e-mailed by many people asking for it, and they replied either that they couldn't because their lawyers didn't want them to do it, or simply that they didn't want to. As far as I know, they NEVER replied that they couldn't because of legal issues with other companies. I think Mark Rein knows that a JJ2 forum still exists, and I think he knows that a message like this would silence most of those e-mail thanks to it.
But maybe you know more than me?
P.S.: I'm leaving for 3-4 days now, so I won't see your replies before Sunday. 
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