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Re:Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard by scrollaway on Thursday May 04, 2017 @02:24AM (#14262892)
I highly doubt it's going to be removed from circulation forever. My guess is it'll be archived internally, the disc itself will end up in their campus museum, and at some point legal will sign off on releasing it to the public.

SC1 is coming up on its 20th anniversary next year, who knows what they'll do for the occasion.

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Re:Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard by acuozzo on Thursday May 04, 2017 @04:00PM (#14268207)
> I highly doubt it's going to be removed from circulation forever.

Agreed, but sometimes…

Shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Fox_vault_fire

Happens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_MGM_vault_fire

Preservation requires distribution.

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Re:Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard by scrollaway on Thursday May 04, 2017 @08:53PM (#14270313)
Of course, and thankfully I know for a fact Blizzard has redundant backups of all their source control :)

The disc would die in a fire certainly, but so would it if it were at the Archive.

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