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+<title>Nonfree DRM'd Games on GNU/Linux: Good or Bad?
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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+<h2>Nonfree DRM'd Games on GNU/Linux: Good or Bad?</h2>
+
+<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/">Richard
Stallman</a></p>
+
+<p>A well known company, Valve, that distributes nonfree computer games
+with Digital Restrictions Management, recently announced it would
+distribute these games for GNU/Linux. What good and bad effects can
+this have?</p>
+
+<p>I suppose that availability of popular nonfree programs on GNU/Linux
+can boost adoption of the system. However, our goal goes beyond making
+this system a “success”; its purpose is to bring freedom to
+the users. Thus, the question is how this development affects users'
+freedom.</p>
+
+<p>Nonfree <span
class="removed"><del><strong>games</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>game programs</em></ins></span> (like other nonfree
programs) are unethical
+because they deny freedom to their users. <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>(Game art is a
+different issue, because it isn't software.)</em></ins></span> If you want
freedom, one
+requisite for it is not having <span class="removed"><del><strong>these
games</strong></del></span> <span class="inserted"><ins><em>nonfree
programs</em></ins></span> on your computer.
+That much is clear.</p>
+
+<p>However, if you're going to use these games, you're better off using
+them on GNU/Linux rather than on Microsoft Windows. At least you avoid
+<a href="http://windows7sins.org/">the harm to your freedom that Windows
+would do</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Thus, in direct practical terms, this development can do both harm
+and good. It might encourage GNU/Linux users to install these games,
+and it might encourage users of the games to replace Windows with
+GNU/Linux. My guess is that the direct good effect will be bigger than
+the direct harm. But there is also an indirect effect: what does the
+use of these games teach people in our community?</p>
+
+<p>Any GNU/Linux distro that comes with software to offer these games
+will teach users that the point is not freedom. <a
+href="/distros/common-distros.html">Nonfree software in GNU/Linux
+distros</a> already works against the goal of freedom. Adding these
+games to a distro would augment that effect.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to promote freedom, please take care not to talk about
+the availability of these games on GNU/Linux as support for our cause.
+Instead you could tell people about
+the <a href="http://lpc.opengameart.org/"> Liberated Pixel Cup</a>
+free game
+<span class="removed"><del><strong>contest</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>contest, <a
href="http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php">
+the Free Game Dev Forum</a>,</em></ins></span> and the <span
class="removed"><del><strong><a
+href="http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Gaming_Collective"></strong></del></span>
LibrePlanet Gaming <span
class="removed"><del><strong>Collective</a></strong></del></span>
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em>Collective's <a
href="http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Gaming_Collective"></em></ins></span>
+free gaming <span
class="removed"><del><strong>night.</p></strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>night.</a> </p></em></ins></span>
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