RuneLite is supported by a diverse community of developers. Just the most recent blog article, where they list all the contributors in the bottom. I'm not gonna get in the concept of open source , but it is crucial for sustaining complex projects in the long-term.
The cheat runelite forks already have to rewrite a lot of heart runelite to enable plugins like tob to even get the job done. If it weren't open source that wouldn't be possible.
How do people develop and test their plugins, unless they're permitted to load unofficial plugins, and then that can just be used by botters as well and there we go.
Jagex would need to employ a dev to go the forks and examine them.
I downloaded a 3pc years ago so I could see names above things on the ground, now look at the shit we can do.
The open source status of runelite induced robots to burst in evasion success and reduced the barrier to entry for bot developers to essentially nothing.If they had a difficult stance where APIs they permit access to they can simply set up an automatic system to ban anybody it finds where their client has altered anything else.
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