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Re: [ProgSoc] Text editors/Web dev apps for the Mac



On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale wrote:
> RMS has stated, for example, that people should not play console games
> because there is (little to) no support for free software on consoles.
> Apparently it's easier to take a hardline moral stance on entertainment.

 There's also some complications with games and availability of
 source.  Consider technologies like punkbuster (etc) that rely to
 a great extent on access to algorithms, source, etc being heavily
 restricted.  Yes yes .. security by obscurity, and all that.

 If full knowledge of the workings of multiplayer games were
 readily provided, this would reduce the quality of the gaming
 experience to the casual user.

 I don't think there's an easy answer to this one.  Relying upon
 the sensibility of would-be players is something you only do up
 until you've played a game that involves a) those same players,
 b) totally hidden source.

 Jedd.

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