Thread:LOTRMod/@comment-29954640-20170223220430/@comment-25330335-20170224221209

LOTRMod wrote: Hate? Hate is a very strong word. Come on, people, of course I wouldn't hate some guy on the internet who edits the LOTR mod. If anything, it's a compliment.

Otvm, if you want to do it, then that's up to you, but the reason I don't really like people to edit the mod is mainly that we're going to be adding all that stuff in the future anyway. I don't want there to be dozens of LOTR mod sub-mods knocking around each adding their own things that we're going to add in the future, because it would encourage people to be more impatient with our work on the mod (and goodness knows we have enough of that already) and when we do eventually add whatever it is, people would appreciate it less. This kinda points out why I like open-source software. It allows people to help with the main project, instead of creating derivatives. Of course, derivatives are allowed (per the license...), but it kinda prevents the author from having this problem. Oftentimes the original work is carried on long after the derivatives die out anyway, so this really isn't a problem.

I don't want this to be a "You should open source the mod" post, but an instance of me pointing out my opinion on these things. I realize what implications that would have, etc.