Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Adding some scummvm game(s) to the "List of software that does not respect the Free System Distribution Guidelines"

[Richard Stallman]

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  > i could add too, that what i wrote previously would have been true 10 years 
ago
  > - today, there is a trend toward web-bound javascript, pocket phones, and VR
  > head-sets - if most game development moves into those areas, i would predict
  > the result to be a much smaller percentage of games being 
freely-distributable,
  > than ever before - software on those platforms is not "distributed" in the
  > conventional sense - it is downloaded into memory upon use (possibly 
guarded by
  > some DRM mechanism), and discarded when the "app" exits

This is a very bad trend -- as is use of Javascript in general.  We
should try to discourage it if we can -- but is there anything we can
do?

Could we possibly help and encourage people who develop games in JS
to release them also so that a user can install a game on per own computer?

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