When EA Sports Accidentally Put a Game&#39;s Source Code on a
Demo Disc  In 1997, EA Sports released a demo disc for the
latest iteration of its FIFA football series. Anyone picking
this disc up got a lot more than they bargained for.  Late last
year, Blackbird Interactive's Yossarian King (whose studio is
now working on Hardware) wrote a piece on industry blog
#altDevBlogADay about building engines.  Tucked away is this
anecdote from his days working at EA Sports:  At EA we focused
plenty on core tech, but we still never had any plan to sell
it...In fact we thought our internal technology represented a
significant competitive advantage that we couldn't possibly let
[others] have. Though there was an embarrassing incident in
which a significant chunk of the FIFA PC source code from 1997
was accidentally included on a demo CD. I suspect that if this
fell into Konami's hands it may have set International Superstar
Soccer back by several years as they tried to figure out just
what we were up to.  Insane. The bui