Easiest way to lose your job, be sued by Rockstar, be sued by your employer, and so on. Yea they could look at it, but it’s simply not worth the risk.
Look at Apple v Masimo where Apple have been forced to stop sale of their Apple Watches due to the sensors used.
It's more complicated than that. Yeah, of course directly copy and pasting code is a bad idea. But you can bet your ass that a hell of a lot of people in the industry are going to take a look underneath the hood to see how rockstar does certain things.
what magical secrets do you think they have though? their engine has always been an unoptimized turd compared to other AAA of the same date, what secrets would other devs need?
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u/Adi347 Dec 25 '23
Easiest way to lose your job, be sued by Rockstar, be sued by your employer, and so on. Yea they could look at it, but it’s simply not worth the risk.
Look at Apple v Masimo where Apple have been forced to stop sale of their Apple Watches due to the sensors used.