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Moniker42 · 05-18-2007

I've got no problem with the sale of software. It's not like music where we'd be better off the artists weren't motivated by money. The problem is when the companies start employing really abusive business tactics to get us to pay for the stuff (DRM, encryption) and abuse their monopolies etcetc.

Games software, is still software, and that needs to be proprietary does it not? I mean you could have free games but they would be rubbish :P

Of course, there could be good free games - I'll happily wear a bumper sticker promoting them, but that doesn't mean I think selling software is wrong and immoral.

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It's a different matter though, to consider whether closed-source is imorral. What have they got to hide?

I find it odd that free developers can hit upon Microsoft patents without realising it and still be pulled up for it without having even seen the code. I've got issue with the whole patents thing anyway... what does it matter who thought of it first?

05-18-2007	#10 (permalink)
Moniker42 Level 37 Bureaucrat Join Date: May 2007 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 188	Re: Do you have an objection to non-free software? I've got no problem with the sale of software. It's not like music where we'd be better off the artists weren't motivated by money. The problem is when the companies start employing really abusive business tactics to get us to pay for the stuff (DRM, encryption) and abuse their monopolies etcetc. Games software, is still software, and that needs to be proprietary does it not? I mean you could have free games but they would be rubbish :P Of course, there could be good free games - I'll happily wear a bumper sticker promoting them, but that doesn't mean I think selling software is wrong and immoral. -- It's a different matter though, to consider whether closed-source is imorral. What have they got to hide? I find it odd that free developers can hit upon Microsoft patents without realising it and still be pulled up for it without having even seen the code. I've got issue with the whole patents thing anyway... what does it matter who thought of it first?
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