Re: request to ban 'no source' contributions

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I probably would never code again if i lost 1 of my game engines like
that. Yeah i learnt backups the hard way too. Now i usually have like
2 backups at least of big projects.


On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:27:51 +1000, Patrick Barnes <mrtrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:39:11 +1000, spent memory <spent.memory at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > releasing open source
> > for Visual Euphoria as soon as i have finished all my personal
> > vandettas against the code in my application. Meaning i want it to be
> > at a certain point before i open
> > it's guts up to the euphoira community, this will probably be in the
> > next release in a week from now.
> 
> Wonderful!
> 
> Speaking from past experience...
> I had a very very cool game I was working on that used my physics
> engine... it had a lot of nice artwork in it too, and was very fun to
> play.
> I was "just finishing it off", before I submitted it to the
> archives... and my hard drive crashed nastily... no more game.
> 
> So please, make sure you have backups!
> 
> 
> --
> MrTrick
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