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 年前

    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 年前

      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 年前

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

        • wvstolzing@lemmy.ml
          3·
          2 年前

          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 年前

            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 年前

        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 年前

          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 年前

            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.