At 05:07 PM 11/29/01 +0000, Keith O'Connell wrote: >OK, > >Whilst this is not a Debian question, as such, as Debian is the >distribution with the purest philosophical roots, I thought I would try >to get a discussion settled here. > >Assuming we are against non-free software and would not contaminate or >machines with closed-source code, what is the panels view on games? > >I was talking to a friend about the Alpha Centari port by Loki, it is >for payment binary only as I understand it. Is this an anathema because >there is no source code? Could it be that it is sensible because a game >is an end in itself, unlike an editor, compiler or browser which are >tools that it is reasonable to want to modify? > >If the source code is there then in a multiplier game, how can you be >sure that your opponent has not tilted his client to enhance his game >play? > >We were just talking - What do people think? > >Keith
Personally (not having any capacity to speak for the debian community) I see Games as an artistic outlet, and an end unto itself that's quite distinct from other software which I view as a means to an end.
