What are peoples thoughts on non-libre games? Is that one of the areas where hiding your code is acceptable? #thoughts #freesoftware #libre
@zpartacoos in my opinion, non-libre games are more permissible due to them not being vital tools/resources to run and maintain your PC. Though, I would encourage them to be libre, it would not be the final straw to break the deal.
A comparison in my case would be that If I liked a painting, I wouldn't ask the artist what brand and colors were used to make it and in what quantity. If however, this was paint used to make a plastic spoon or other cookware I regularly used to ingest- I would need to know that for my own health concerns.
@lucifargundam @zpartacoos a painting cannot crash and make you house piping explode, neither can a burglar enter through a painting. Proprietary game is more akin to said artist asking you for the keys to your house, you know, to make sure you put the painting in the right place and always look at it from the right angle as to not ruin the artistic vision... that's the reason, promise ^_^
@namark @zpartacoos
Although I understand where you're coming from with this explanation- it also assumes network connectivity for burglary and insufficient system administration fail-safes to prevent damaging hardware. Both of which is fairly common amongst most videogame userbase to the comical extreme.
As such, I _try_ to take care when running proprietary software such as Valve's Steam platform and the multitude of products(independent and otherwise) available within.
@lucifargundam @zpartacoos you are clearly unaware of exploits galore that are modern systems, and when it comes to crashes I'm not talking about damaging hardware, I'm talking about your entire system going down cause you shot the NPC in the wrong knee. Just turn it on and off again and is all good, or maybe wipe your hard drive that will get you out of any mess, problem solved? Also yes I love ripping the wifi module out the device every time I want to single-play like the total loser that I am.
Disregarding the practical issues, your logic is backward. "Yeah I'm gonna give them the keys, but keep them at a gunpoint whenever they come in to make sure they don't do anything fishy, I do it with everyone who comes and goes, family, friends, you never know". A personal computer should not need to treat the software it is running as an potential threat, that's a side effect of proprietary software culture and totally bonkers if you think about it.
