It would bring reputation. Reputation = money, in the end..

Haha that way of thinking is not even fully related to the subject. I don't think Epic really cares about the small Jazz2 fan population compared to the massive Gears fandom.. Well, I'd say most of them (if they lurked J2O) would at least see us as loyal fans of a game that shaped their company, but nobody appears to take responsibility for the source code, because there is little reason to care for it.

Couldn't we leak the source code somehow? I know there are other people than Epic Games who have it. Wasn't one of those, the one who made the MacOS port, a community member? I do remember something like that.