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Valve Is Making All Their Games Free To Debian Developers
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Originally posted by mmstick View PostWhy does Valve need to provide Debian developers with the entire Steam category? Not even Valve's own employees get free games. That gets into illegal territory. This is simply a gift from Valve, who owns the licenses to the IP of their own games, to Debian developers. Valve does not own the IP for games that aren't their own even if they sell those games on their platform. They are merely a distribution middleman.
I don't think it will be into any illegal territory, as long as an account is used up to agreement.
Originally posted by blackiwid View PostOf course maybe we will come to a point where people release opensource games and sell "them", I mean selling the art-work that would work perfectly without violating the gpl and without violating the security of the users.Last edited by brosis; 22 January 2014, 11:07 PM.
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Originally posted by pandev92 View PostYes, because this, open source games sucks like urban terror, tux cart, open arena etc etc, you can continue playing this, I wil play for you, battlefield 4 on my Windows 8.1 goodbye troll.
Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostAnything on the PC is dominated by steam.Last edited by shmerl; 23 January 2014, 12:22 AM.
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Originally posted by mcirsta View PostWould you people please stop complaining about DRM and so on ... Valve is actually bringing gaming to Linux, which suffered from serious problems in this regard for a long long time. You can already see the improvements to Linux GPU drivers and these improvements will benefit all Linux games DRM or no DRM and even Linux desktops that use the GPU.
Those that have a problem with Steam and all that comes with it can just avoid it, no one's making anyone use it but no matter how you look at it this is a very good thing for Linux, period.
We are already using DRM-free options and avoiding Steam, no problem. That doesn't mean that we can't criticise it. And again, Valve isn't playing nice with their DRM, they are adding it as a requirement to use Steamworks, and while you can have DRM-free games on Steam, they are never advertised as such and overall seem to be opt-out rather than opt-in.
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Phoronix forums at its best again!
I really like threads like this one.
Original topic: "Hey, Valve is making a gift towards Debian developers, isn't that nice?"
Phoronix crowd: "But, but, but ... DRM, don't forget about the DRM !!!!111!!!"
I don't see the actual problem of you people, regardless if you have a problem with DRM or not, this is a nice gesture from Valve and it is totally up to the individual Debian developer if he/she accepts that gift or not.
You have a problem with Steam's DRM? Well, who cares, just don't use it, go to Desura or wait for GOG to support Linux. In the meantime I will buy games from Steam. Mainly Indie games by the way, so regardless if there is DRM or not, I support small developers that in turn support my OS of choice, using one of the largest (if not the largest) software distribution channels of the world, so that they don't have to deal with the distribution themselves and reach a far larger audience.
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Originally posted by daniels View Postit's just a way for valve to say thanks to debian developers, since steamos is based on debian.
They're obviously not talking about that anymore, they're busy bitching about DRM... go bitch on Sony's/Nintendo/Microsoft/Apple forums/pages while you're at it guys.
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Originally posted by Vim_User View PostI don't see the actual problem of you people, regardless if you have a problem with DRM or not, this is a nice gesture from Valve and it is totally up to the individual Debian developer if he/she accepts that gift or not.
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