Open source is wrong. It irritates me to no end how companies claim to be
'open source friendly' because they release a very minimal amount of source
code to the community. They claim to be 'collaborating with the community',
when all they're doing is making it easier to run their proprietary software
using /some/ software with source available. Sometimes, the source they
release might not even be under a free license, and even if it is, it's
useless because it's just good for a proprietary program. That's just wrong.
I remember one time talking to somebody about 'open source'. They said that
they love open source. When asked why, their reason was because they could
take the code, make it better and then release it as closed source product
(if the license permits) and make money off of it! Again, that's
just...wrong!
I'm glad though that you have the same views that I do on 'open source'. I
thought I was the only one who referred to open source as software with some
source code available while the rest is proprietary, while Free Software is
fully open and respects the four essential freedoms.
The big picture on open source is just terrible though, and completely
ridiculous. Releasing some software's source code and keeping the rest
disclosed isn't 'open' at all, and the only reason companies even release the
little software that they do as 'open source' is just as a business act, so
people can think they're being friendly and helping to promote software
freedom, when they aren't. They're just giving you a wrapper to use for their
proprietary software.
Anyway, onto free software games:
Yes, I do agree that free software games are better in the sense that they
can be made to work with future versions of an operating system, and not
/all/ free software games are bad. Some of them, Xonotic for example, show
that the free software gaming community can really produce some amazing stuff
that's comparable to proprietary, modern games. Unfortunately, those Free
games that are capable of competing with proprietary, modern-day games are
very little. It's sad to say it, but that's my opinion. That's probably the
only thing I miss about Windows, was all the games. (I used to be a heavy
gamer up until a few months ago, before the switch to full freedom). Of
course, don't take that as a sign that I want to go back to Windows, because
I really don't. I've gotten this far into freedom, I don't want to take a
step back.
