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>I would be very interested to know what he thinks about computer games See Stallman's Reddit AMA (#7): http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/rms-ama.html http://blo
by redthrowaway 15y ago
>I would be very interested to know what he thinks about computer games
See Stallman's Reddit AMA (#7): http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/rms-ama.html http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/rms-ama.html
Essentially, he thinks that the production quality associated with studio games is not worth the sacrifice in user freedom. Your point about games being much like film is an interesting one. Elsewhere in the AMA, he says that he doesn't consider proprietary software that controls, eg, a microwave, to be unethical as it's functionally indistinct from hardware. Now, with some games (cough BF3) being functionally indistinct from movies, it would be interesting to know whether he believes those, too, are unethical. My guess is yes, as there are many things like DRM and data collection going on behind the scenes that the FSF is opposed to.