New stuff in Regnum Online

[Conzar]

So how do you know there aren't any programmers that would be willing to help on developing the source code?

How do you know that their source code is a mess if you haven't seen the source code?

How do you know which programming languages they are using?
Why in the world would they use straight assembly when shader languages exist?

Also, if the source code does get liberated, whose to say that the community wouldn't help clean it up? Sort of like a dirty park.

Releasing the game under GPL or any other F/LOSS licence would hurt NGD. NGD is really small, and it barely survived to the 2001 economic crisis in Argentina, so they don't have enough money to enhance their code as fast as Blizzard can, or make a complete rewrite of the game to put SMP and Videocard technologies to good use.

I don't understand ... how would open sourcing it hurt NGD?

Are you making an argument to open source it because if it was F/OSS then NGD would have more resources to make enhancements to the game faster?