Indeed tsahyt, I'm also a bit concerned. I'm actually divided here. Besides the "flashplugin" package, I don't have any more proprietary packages in my laptop (I didn't remove the kernel proprietary blobs too), but I really want to install Steam and play Counter Strike 1.6 on Arch. It would be amazing. I haven't made up my mind yet, but I'll probably end up installing Steam, disregarding DRM and closed source software.
Re:Faster Zombies
by freehunter on Thursday August 02, 2012 @08:36AM
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Linux hasn't been free from DRM or blobs for quite a while. Official drivers are often closed source, things running in Wine are often closed source, codecs are sometimes non-free, etc. You can get by without installing proprietary code right now, but you can do the same when Steam and various games are on the platform. It's not like the presence of Steam automatically locks the source on the existing applications.
You give examples of blobs, not DRM. Unless you are referring to the direct rendering manager, I have not encountered any DRM in years of using Linux on the desktop.
Re:Faster Zombies
by freehunter on Thursday August 02, 2012 @11:34AM
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You're right, I was thinking of Mono/Moonlight but had forgotten that this was a DRM-free implementation.
Although Linus doesn't feel too negatively against DRM on Linux.
However, I'm still very much concerned about the things that come with proprietary games on the Linux platform. On the one hand it will open up Linux for a lot of users but then again I want a fully free platform without any DRM drenched material or proprietary code. This is what made Linux so powerful in the first place.