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In response to the increasing availability non-free and DRM'd games on GNU Linux, the LibrePlanet Gaming Collective has been established! by TheSilentNumberin linux

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 0 points1 point ago

It wasn't that i think you were the only person reading, it was just the speed at which I was downvoted after each response to you in particular...

In response to the increasing availability non-free and DRM'd games on GNU Linux, the LibrePlanet Gaming Collective has been established! by TheSilentNumberin gnu

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 6 points7 points ago

And 10 years ago you could ask any GNU Linux user if they'd ever used a good operating system.

In response to the increasing availability non-free and DRM'd games on GNU Linux, the LibrePlanet Gaming Collective has been established! by TheSilentNumberin opensource

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 10 points11 points ago

Just because you can't imagine how businesses could exist in the gaming market without artificial scarcities just like people have said about literally every type of free software and free cultural work, doesn't mean that other people can't be creative.

http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2011/07/free-game-lag.html

In response to the increasing availability non-free and DRM'd games on GNU Linux, the LibrePlanet Gaming Collective has been established! by TheSilentNumberin linux

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 3 points4 points ago

I have no problem with disagreeing. I have a problem with how often you click down vote just because you disagree. People? More like rabid animals.

I actually agree with this, but don't think it should stop you from continuing the conversation. Also, I do believe you were downvoting me immediately at first too, no?

Unless what you really meant is that now that you see that people disagree with you, you concede, which is also interesting...

In response to the increasing availability non-free and DRM'd games on GNU Linux, the LibrePlanet Gaming Collective has been established! by TheSilentNumberin gnu

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 7 points8 points ago

Just because you can't imagine how businesses could exist in the gaming market without artificial scarcities just like people have said about literally every type of free software and free cultural work, doesn't mean that other people can't be creative.

http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2011/07/free-game-lag.html

In response to the increasing availability non-free and DRM'd games on GNU Linux, the LibrePlanet Gaming Collective has been established! by TheSilentNumberin gnu

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 14 points15 points ago

Replace 'videogames' with browsers, operating systems, office suites, anything you like. Stallman isn't anti-business. Free software runs the world, businesses especially.

In response to the increasing availability non-free and DRM'd games on GNU Linux, the LibrePlanet Gaming Collective has been established! by TheSilentNumberin opensource

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 14 points15 points ago

Replace 'videogames' with browsers, operating systems, office suites, anything you like. Stallman isn't anti-business. Free software runs the world, businesses especially.

In response to the increasing availability non-free and DRM'd games on GNU Linux, the LibrePlanet Gaming Collective has been established! by TheSilentNumberin linux

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 1 point2 points ago

If we want wide scale adoption of Linux as a platform, we need to not shoot ourselves in the foot and be willing to accept and support the diversity of both open and closed source software on our platform.

Yes! I for one hope that we can all have devices like the Kindle and Tivo that are Linux based but give you no freedom! I just want that kernel in every device ever, regardless of how it functions for me

Unless of course we want our platform to be as popular and widely used as Gnusense or Hurd, if that's the case then by all means cut off both hands and feet in the name of four freedoms!!11

Right, nobody uses them becouse people hate talking about freedom, not because linux happened to be ready sooner and more mature and completely more practical.

My friend has been working on an epic 3D animation using Blender and really needs help in the last days of their Kickstarter campaign! by TheSilentNumberin animation

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 0 points1 point ago

Right, but they are people, they don't have the foundation's resources or infrastructure.

My friend has been working on an epic 3D animation using Blender and really needs help in the last days of their Kickstarter campaign! by TheSilentNumberin animation

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 0 points1 point ago

They will come, for sure! I always make sure to promote the hell out of them when they pop up (hence this) so that more will come

My friend has been working on an epic 3D animation using Blender and really needs help in the last days of their Kickstarter campaign! by TheSilentNumberin animation

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 0 points1 point ago

This is an independent project, not a Blender Foundation project. That's what's so exciting. It's proving this works for real people, not just the org behind the software

Free Software, Open Source, FOSS, FLOSS – Same same but different by JRepinin opensource

[–]TheSilentNumber 0 points1 point ago

You said the diagram indicated that all free software was free-download software, but it doesn't. It says most, but not all, is.

Linux at 21: A new Linux Foundation t-shirt contest by Tanglesomein linux

[–]TheSilentNumber 0 points1 point ago

I'm expecting a bunch of schwasty-facetd pengiungs, partying, boozing, and vomiting all over the place.

Free Software, Open Source, FOSS, FLOSS – Same same but different by JRepinin opensource

[–]TheSilentNumber 0 points1 point ago

Sure but the importance of commercial use of free software is essential. If nobody could use it for commercial purposes it would get nowhere, and this is something that the free culture crowd often disregards.

Defining commercial is too difficult, and when you prevent selling a copy, you prevent a lot more than that. But still, free software's distribution can, is, and should be paid for. Not always by the end-user or recipent, but even still sometimes. It's a convenience charge or service charge. It costs money to make CD's and USB's and websites that host files. It makes no sense to say that once you host a file on there you can no longer make money from providing that distribution.

Luckily this is not a problem with free software where people try to tack free software licenses with noncommercial clauses, but Creative Commons is all fucked up in this area.

Free Software, Open Source, FOSS, FLOSS – Same same but different by TheSilentNumberin linux

[–]TheSilentNumber[S] 0 points1 point ago

This is an awesome, well-presented, levelheaded, non-inflammatory writeup on the naming controversy. I hope it helps a lot of people understand the issue better.

Free Software, Open Source, FOSS, FLOSS – Same same but different by JRepinin opensource

[–]TheSilentNumber 0 points1 point ago

uh...does it? Not the entire free software bubble is covered...

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