The theft of the source

The theft of the source code for Half-Life 2 has yielded fallout: a delay of the game until April 2004 so Valve developers can rewrite significant portions of the game. The biggest concern isn’t so much theft of the game itself (only a portion of the game code was taken), but the opportunity that open source provides to hackers who can develop cheats for multiplayer games. No date was given for the Xbox version…