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Originally Posted by RealCop228 I don't know the full history, but I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the feud between MTA and SA:MP.

MTA is already more advanced than SA:MP, mainly because it is open-source and there is more than ONE developer.

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Originally Posted by gtakillerIV I think it'll be kinda messy. It won't be safe too. It might get duplicated into another Gta SA online mod. Of course if that's without no copyright. Hackers can also find vulnerabilities in the source and take advantages of them.

Hackers will find vulnerabilities and FIX invulnerabilities (not all, but some white hats). Most bugs will get fixed in day-zero.

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Originally Posted by Rock You will never find a source code of a software that brings money to his owner. SA-MP is designed to make money (hosts, ads, hosted list..). MTA is not an investition so is open-source.

It does NOT bring money to his owner, only to those guys who are not respecting the SA:MP license (which clearly states: © This software may not be exploited for personal, financial or commercial gain.).

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Originally Posted by Mauzen Why it isnt open-source? Security. Sure open-source is said to be more secure as there are more people working to close bugs. At the same time, there are more people with perfect knowledge of samps internal functionality, making it easy to exploit hundreds of issues that would take months or years to close. Spreading of hundreds of different versions, every second server would have its own samp version, so the server browser becomes quite useless. You would need to download all those versions, mess up your hard drive, and probably catch some malware with one or two versions. Playercounts would drop drastically, because you couldnt just join any server. Protection of the developers personal work. If I spent 8 years of my life for some software project, I would probably jump out of the next window if I would have to watch 10000 wannabe scriptkids messing around with my work. Unfortunately the next window just drops a meter here. MTA is open source, but because of that not every multiplayer mod has to be open source. Actually there are just very few open-source mods and games in general, mostly because of the reasons above. And actually, people keep claiming that MTA is so much better, and its open source, and bla bla bla, though samp got at least 10 times more players than MTA at its best times, also mostly because of the upper reasons. Please stop thinking that open-source always is better. It isnt.

1. I already said why this would INCREASE the security AND performance.
2. Kalcor can release only the samp-server as open-source so the client browser won't become useless.
3. Yet, lots of GOOD developers will contribute too.
4. SA:MP is more popular because it has a more suitable name, it is older and as a result, it's more popular. Future-wise, it is NOT better.
5. Open-source is BETTER in most cases. This is not an enterprise that counts on the selling of the SA-MP server.

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Originally Posted by Rajat_Pawar One simple reason - no one wants to see his/her hard work running around on the Internet where a thousand people can see it and work on it. And Kalcor did do hard work, SA-MP's creation was no piece of cake. Hell, if I had worked 1 year on some stuff, I'd die with it!

There are lots of developers I respect very much (from these forums: Slice, ******, Zeex and there are more, but these guys sprung to my mind) who release their work as open-source.