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> I'm just pointing out that this isn't free for the sake of being benevolent. It's free for the sake of capturing market share. this seems like it could be a

• wwalser 9y ago
  Benevolent: "(of an organization) serving a charitable rather than a profit-making purpose." That's not how this word works. We can use another one. I hasten to add, again, that I'm attributing nothing pejorative. I'm glad Epic have done this. It's great marketing that may be helpful to lots of people.
  • abiox 9y ago
    "benevolent" wasn't being used to describe the organization, it was being used to describe a particular action.
    • awesomepeter 9y ago
      The issue is this action isn't benevolent. It's nice, but as said previously it's to promote their engine. So they will profit from it indirectly. If on the other hand they would release the assets without strings attached (for use with any game engine / in any way) then I'd say this word would apply.
      • abiox 9y ago
        and my point was that this seemed like a false dichotomy.
• squarefoot 9y ago
  True. A dichotomy cannot explain for example tax deductible donations: they're obviously self advertising at much lower cost than a real PR campaign, still they benefit someone, so we probably should use a trichotomy like "I'm doing good even if it has a sustainable cost" - "I'm doing good only if it somehow benefits me as well" - "I'm not doing good because being evil brings even more profit than the above".