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Re: [News] Hexen and Heretic Become Free Software (GNU GPL)

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____/ High Plains Thumper on Saturday 13 September 2008 15:37 : \____

> Hadron wrote:
>> High Plains Thumper writes:
>>> ml2mst wrote:
>>>> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Point is that such games can be enjoyed under multiple
>>>>> operating systems and still be legal.  How many games
>>>>> have been illegally installed in Windows, hmmmm?
>>>>
>>>> The majority of Winware is illegal.
>> >
>>> That I can understand, hence why all the EULA's and software
>>> pirating protection schemes.
>> 
>> And here we have a perfect example of "lets play someones game
>> (hard work and investment) for free". "free" as in - it costs
>> you nothing.
> 
> Perfect?  No, rather sad taken out-of-context analogy.
> 
> Game has been around for a while, writer and manufacturer have
> received their compensation.  Due to newer titles and features,
> game is not as profitable as before.  They make the game code
> available to the FOSS community, for maintenance and permision to
> distro.
> 
> This is legal, whereas theft of software is not.
> 
>> "With it being released, it would not surprise me that this
>> little encumbrance will be overcome."
>> 
>> You should be ashamed of yourself.
> 
> Replying to your moronic insults?  Yes.
 
HPT, you're wasting your time and bandwidth on this scum.

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