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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/nonfree-games.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/nonfree-games.html index c85f5f7..e5b820b 100644 --- a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/nonfree-games.html +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/nonfree-games.html @@ -1,12 +1,20 @@ <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> -<!-- Parent-Version: 1.86 --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 --> +<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html --> +<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays cultural drm" --> +<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" --> <title>Nonfree DRM'd Games on GNU/Linux: Good or Bad? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/nonfree-games.translist" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> +<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" --> +<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--> +<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" --> +<div class="article reduced-width"> <h2>Nonfree DRM'd Games on GNU/Linux: Good or Bad?</h2> -<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/">Richard Stallman</a></p> +<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/">Richard +Stallman</a></address> <p>A well known company, Valve, that distributes nonfree computer games with Digital Restrictions Management, recently announced it would @@ -20,10 +28,10 @@ to <a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html"> bring freedom to the users </a>. Thus, the larger question is how this development affects users' freedom.</p> -<p>The problem with these games -is not that <a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Commercial"> they are -commercial</a>. (We see nothing wrong with that.) It -is not that <a href="/philosophy/selling.html"> the developers +<p>The problem with these games is <em>not</em> that +they are <a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Commercial">commercial</a>. +(We see nothing wrong with that.) It +is <em>not</em> that <a href="/philosophy/selling.html"> the developers sell copies</a>; that's not wrong either. The problem is that the games contain software that is <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">not free</a> @@ -39,7 +47,7 @@ clear.</p> <p>However, if you're going to use these games, you're better off using them on GNU/Linux rather than on Microsoft Windows. At least you avoid -<a href="http://upgradefromwindows8.org/">the harm to your freedom that Windows +<a href="https://www.fsf.org/windows">the harm to your freedom that Windows would do</a>.</p> <p>Thus, in direct practical terms, this development can do both harm @@ -59,14 +67,14 @@ games to a distro would augment that effect.</p> not be gratis. It is feasible to develop free games commercially, while respecting your freedom to change the software you use. Since the art in the game is not software, it is not ethically imperative to -make the art free — though free art is an additional +make the art free—though free art is an additional contribution. There is in fact free game software developed by companies, as well as free games developed noncommercially by volunteers. Crowdfunding development will only get easier.</p> <p>But if we suppose that it is <em>not feasible</em> in the current situation to develop a certain -kind of free game — what would follow then? There's no good in +kind of free game—what would follow then? There's no good in writing it as a nonfree game. To have freedom in your computing, requires rejecting nonfree software, pure and simple. You as a freedom-lover won't use the nonfree game if it exists, so @@ -77,21 +85,22 @@ take care not to talk about the availability of these games on GNU/Linux as support for our cause. Instead you could tell people about the <a href="https://libregamewiki.org/Main_Page">libre games wiki</a> that attempts to catalog free -games, <a href="http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php"> the Free Game +games, <a href="https://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php"> the Free Game Dev Forum</a>, and the LibrePlanet Gaming -Collective's <a href="http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Gaming_Collective"> +Collective's <a href="https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Gaming_Collective"> free gaming night.</a> </p> -<h3>Notes</h3> +<h3>Note</h3> <p> -<a href="http://web-old.archive.org/web/20191125215630/http://onpon4.github.io/articles/gaming-trap.html"> +<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191125215630/http://onpon4.github.io/articles/gaming-trap.html"> Watch out for “nonfree game data” that actually contains software.</a></p> +</div> </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> -<div id="footer"> +<div id="footer" role="contentinfo"> <div class="unprintable"> <p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to @@ -109,13 +118,13 @@ to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>.</p> to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org"> <web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p> - <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of + <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of our web pages, see <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README</a>. --> Please see the <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations -README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations +README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations of this article.</p> </div> @@ -136,7 +145,7 @@ of this article.</p> There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. --> -<p>Copyright © 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p> +<p>Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2021, 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p> <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative @@ -146,7 +155,7 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p> <p class="unprintable">Updated: <!-- timestamp start --> -$Date: 2020/06/01 10:25:36 $ +$Date: 2022/06/25 14:25:16 $ <!-- timestamp end --> </p> </div> |