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Sharing The Code Just Seems Like The Right Thing To Do. It Costs Us Rather Little, But It Benefits A Lot Of People In Sometimes Very Significant Ways. There Are Many University Research Projects, Proof Of Concept Publisher Demos, And New Platform Test Beds That Have Leveraged The Code. Free Software That People Value Adds Wealth To The World.

It Is Not That Uncommon For The Cost Of An Abstraction To Outweigh The Benefit It Delivers. Kill One Today!

The Idea That I Can Be Presented With A Problem, Set Out To Logically Solve It With The Tools At Hand, And Wind Up With A Program That Could Not Be Legally Used Because Someone Else Followed The Same Logical Steps Some Years Ago And Filed For A Patent On It Is Horrifying.

Programming Is Not A Zero-sum Game. Teaching Something To A Fellow Programmer Doesn't Take It Away From You. I'm Happy To Share What I Can, Because I'm In It For The Love Of Programming.

It Is Difficult To Make Good Scalable Use Of A Cpu Like You Can Of A Graphics Card. You Certainly Don't Want 'better Or Worse' Physics Or Ai In Your Game