[frik]

Before Minecraft, there was "Infiniminer" - a decompiler was involved:

Zachtronics discontinued development of the game less than a month after its first release as the result of its source code leak. As Barth had not obfuscated the C# .NET source code of the game, it was decompiled and extracted from the binaries. Hackers modified the code to make mods, but also started making clients that would target vulnerabilities in the game as well as build incompatible game forks that fragmented its user base. Barth, who was making the game for free, then lost interest and dropped the project, as development of the game had become too difficult. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Barth

"Proto-MineCraft Abandoned Due To Epic Error" article: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/01/20/proto-minecraft-a...

The Minecraft mods-support relies on a decompiler too: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Programs_and_editors/Minecraf...

[emodendroket]

Is it really an "epic error" to allow someone to see the source code of your program?

[frik]

It's the headline of the rockpapershotgun.com article, that's simply their writing style. I added quote around the title, to make it clear that it's the articles title and not my opinion.

[emodendroket]

Sorry, I realize that; I just take issue with their claim.