Re: [Trisquel-users] Dolphin and Emulation

[Roeplay]

The problem is not that that Free Software can't be profitable, but that the  
direction the market takes when development of the product is decentralized  
is unpredictable. Also, the benefits to the industry as a whole (and in turn,  
any particular large game company that advocates Free Software) would not be  
immediately visible. Free Software is a radical proposition in a world full  
of people that hate to share, so it's difficult to convince large companies  
to take the initial necessary steps to foster an industry for it. Risk is the  
bane of sustained profit. It was much easier to get this movement off the  
ground for computers because it was mostly just unpaid volunteers that liked  
to write unique, useful software and share it, and the corporations like IBM,  
Sun, and Novell only began to chime in when the foundation was well in place.  
The patented nature of game consoles means that change has to come from the  
top down, and that's a much more difficult thing to achieve.
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