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Games will always be proprietary. That's an unfortunate fact that I think we
must come to terms with. The industry is just too large, the profits too
great, for it to ever be free.
And no, I'm not confusing gratis and libre here. Just imagine if Valve
released a popular game under the GPL. "Piracy", or sharing, would actually
be allowed under the terms of the license, so gamers would pass the game on
to each other rather than buy it from Steam. And this would be perfectly
legal. Valve would make no money, because when something is libre, it means
that it's all to easy to get a copy gratis.
Knowing this, I think that a platform that is totally free (libre), but that
can run non-free games, is a good thing. We know that the games themselves
will never be free, but the system they run on can be. I think we should
encourage that. I also think that this could be a great thing for free
software, as games will bring many more people over to free GNU/Linux
systems. If we can make sure those systems are completely free, then there
will be more freedom.
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