@sun @j I had pondered mandating protocol publication, for the sake of things like phone controlled devices where there is no genuine public interest in the protocols being secret.

for games it's weird because there is an interest in them being closed for a limited duration but once they should be opened everyone has already been fired and the media lost or buried in some billionaires forgotten warehouse. you'd need something like an escrow to hold and release the artifacts.

just letting people crack at stuff is fine and all :blobcatpirate: but it's kinda limited