I don’t play or promote videogames, I honestly just want to focus on developing open source software!! And I know that Tux and other mascots have their own open source games, but do you think the developers of mainline Linux play videogames??

  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
    91·
    2 years ago

    I don’t think stallman would say videogames being proprietary is evil, I believe he made an exception for art.

    And bear in mind, every vintage console emulator to play those games are open source.

    • wvstolzing@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      Somewhere im the bowels of youtube, there’s the footage of Stallman quarreling with B. Lunduke on this very question. It was a micro-scandal some 15 yrs. ago, I think.

      • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
        21·
        2 years ago

        Now that you mention it I faintly remember that. Been a long time since I watched Lunduke.

        • wvstolzing@lemmy.ml
          3·
          2 years ago

          This was on the ‘Linux Action Show’ on Jupiter Broadcasting; Lunduke used to be a very annoying co-host before getting replaced by Matt Hartley.

          • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            I was afraid to say it in case you liked him but YES. When I first got into Linux I subscribed to his standalone show on youtube, but he was so god damned long winded, I can’t tolerate any of his content now, especially since he got ‘weird’

      • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Oh, damn. Thanks for finding that man. Now I’m not sure where I read his stance on closed-source art. I might be mixing that up with Torvalds stance in tivoization, but I’m not sure. It might’ve been the Lunduke interview Wzstolzing mentioned.

        • duncesplayed@lemmy.oneEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          No he does actually mention in the middle of that that while code must be free, art is different because art is not software. I guess he’s imagining a situation where a game would have multiple licences (one licence for the code, a different one for the art assets).

          • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            Very few games would qualify for that, unfortunately. One of the few that comes to mind would be when iD released the source code to Doom 1, 2, and 3 under GPL, but with the assets still under copyright.