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   xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 16:24:21 JST xianc78

   • Pawlicker

   @PurpCat Nah bro, you should only play free software games like Tux Racer. Proprietary games, including games released for old platforms keep you isolated and helpless.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 16:24:19 JST 翠星石

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     • Pawlicker
     @xianc78 @PurpCat Tux Racer was in fact made proprietary.
     
     Meanwhile, Extreme Tux Racer is free.
     
     Proprietary games don't respect your 4 freedoms; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms thus they do leave you isolated and helpless.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 16:33:32 JST 翠星石

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     • Outer Colony Theropod
     @RK7 @PurpCat @xianc78 >fully reverse engineered games
     Due to copyright law, those are proprietary software and often are illegal to distribute - the source code is no good if you don't have the 4 freedoms; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms
     
     Free software clones of games written from scratch are good, as they respect the users freedom and often are functionally better than the original.
     
     >older hardware/software typically wasn't really capable of the same sort of spying/telemetry
     Yes, older hardware and software didn't have spying, but this was due to technical limitations only - if the internet was more accessible at the time, they would have done what is being done at the moment.
     
     Old hardware and software was full of digital handcuffs, it's just that most of those handcuffs have now been broken or are bypassed.
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     Outer Colony Theropod (rk7@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 16:33:33 JST Outer Colony Theropod

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     • Pawlicker
     @xianc78 @PurpCat I bet even fully reverse engineered games are a step to far for freetard purists too.
     They forget that older hardware/software typically wasn't really capable of the same sort of spying/telemetry that more modern stuff is- and freetardism on that front is more for ease of modification than muh security.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 16:35:54 JST 翠星石

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     • Outer Colony Theropod
     @xianc78 @RK7 @PurpCat Imaginary property does not exist; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
     
     The most important things in the world are freedom, community and sharing.
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     xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 16:35:55 JST xianc78

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     • Outer Colony Theropod

     @RK7 @PurpCat
     >They forget that older hardware/software typically wasn't really capable of the same sort of spying/telemetry that more modern stuff is

     You should see all the old FSF interviews and documentaries from around that time. There main talking point was "sharing is caring". Like I'm not a big fan of intellectual property either, but I don't think that sharing copies is the most important thing in the world.