I am seeing a disturbing trend: The only OS family that will support LRR is getting more and more hostile to our favorite game with each generation.

This means unless we do something, there will be no more modding as the computers that readily allow it die off.

We have a choice: Beg and plead with TLC to at least allow us to make an engine that can use the files we are familar with, make our own OS, or do nothing and let it, and this forum, die.

The first option has one big problem: People could download it and Baz's mod and effectively pirite the game.

The second is even worse: The best and simplest way to keep it from being infected is to use permissions to identify possible malware and leave it to the user to determine the presence of, and if needed, remove the bad code from the good code. This means sifting through source code that was not meant to even be seen, but then again, no legal program outside of the editor used to make the kernel should try to modify the kernel. There are, of course, ways to prevent abuse of this that can, and almost certainly will, be implmented. A dialouge box with options for action is probably a good idea as well.