Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement

Re:Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement by numpad0 on Monday April 18, 2022 @04:50AM (#31068621)

I think he just reinvented F2P. Or looking at something similar to its spirit.

Many modern competition games like VALORANT or PUBG are free-beer with paid food, built on free-beer semi open engines like UE4, and are also streamed free-beer on Twitch or YouTube.

And kids are moving towards F2P from paid games such as Battlefield or Call of Duty franchise, because the former category is free(-beer). The former is also startin in to surpass the latter in quality.

It’s “just” a matter of turning free-beer into free speech, and I think it could well happen as an inevitability, just not in a quarter or two.

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Re:Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement by Ekaros on Monday April 18, 2022 @07:41AM (#31069457)

I don't think it will happen. The engines might be free speech, part of game play too. But the tens or hundreds of thousands of hours spend unified assets is much harder thing to reach. And where the value really is.

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