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You forget the part where we all have to agree if the code someone has made should be added to the game. We also have to agree on how it gets coded. Everyone will have their own coding styles which will be messy and hard to understand to other users.

Think of it this way:

Code X is the current version. 2 people work on the code making 2 versions of the game XY and XZ. We now have to decide whether we use X, XY or XZ. But say we want XYZ, now the 2 pieces of code have to be brought together without making any extra bugs. Unstructured open source does not work. There will be so many versions of the game created that are all intended to become part of the full game, all with their own separate variable names and then the community must decide what gets added and what doesn't. Then there's making everyone's code compatible with each others. If you really think that the EE community will be able to agree on all of this then you think too highly of this community. Open source will be a mess.