> Steam is proprietary. Proprietary bad. Open source good. The opening statement almost feels satirical. In the rough chance you're not: Software is a product

> Steam is proprietary. Proprietary bad. Open source good. The opening statement almost feels satirical. In the rough chance you're not: Software is a product just as much as you pay for the hardware product. Some developers open source hardware, and that does a drastic good for society. Some developers open source software, and that too is great for society. Yet proprietary hardware still exists and for the vast majority of devices - is dominant. Software rightfully should be used as the license permits. If you want to take the 'moral high ground' then ideally I agree, as much software as possible should be open source. Piracy is not in any way following the open source mantra. The core philosophy that legally supports open source is in fact the Software License. By pirating software, you breach the terms of the license, and are breaking said license in all the same ways as you would for open source software should you breach the license. Willing to bet that you would hold a pitch fork against any company or person who'd breach an open source license. What is different in this case? You're still infringing on someone's intellectual property rights.