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Re:Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard by pjc50 on Thursday May 04, 2017 @05:45AM (#14263687)
When, in 20 years, we're hearing that this disc got lost again sometime in the bankruptcy chain of Activision Blizzard, we'll see whether corporate archiving or vigilante illegal archiving is more effective.
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Re:Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard by jakebasile on Thursday May 04, 2017 @04:31PM (#14268511)
Is there any risk that the compiled binaries, on millions of computers and available for free and legal download from Blizzard, will disappear in 20 years?
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Re:Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard by pjc50 on Friday May 05, 2017 @06:40AM (#14272431)
No. But the source is useful for other purposes than compiling , especially with original comments.

For rarer games, and those shipped on DRMed/copy protected media, it's certainly possible to get into a situation at risk of losing all known copies of the binaries!

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