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What is your objection[1]? If companies in that industry are contributing directly to funding development or hiring developers it's positive for the engine and
by rlonstein 9y ago
What is your objection[1]? If companies in that industry are contributing directly to funding development or hiring developers it's positive for the engine and for the rest of the community who get it on the same license terms. Look at how Bet365 (iirc) has kept Riak and some other bits of the Erlang ecosystem going.
[1] Conceding that some minority of people find gambling addictive and they are the customers the game makers tailor their product for.
- skybrian 9y agoIt's exactly what you conceded in [1]. If I found out that that open source software I'm working on is ending up in slot machines, I wouldn't feel great about it, even if there's not really anything to be done about it. It just seemed like an odd thing to brag about.
- scrumper 9y agoProbably one should be equally uneasy about one's OSS contributions ending up in F2P games too, since they are often highly addictive time- and money-sinks.