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>In the case of games, nearly every single game company refuses to provide their games as free (libre) game software.

Rockstar spent $266 million to develop Grand Theft Auto V. How do you expect them to recoup this cost if they gave it away as free software? What communist fairly land do you come from?



If GP is from the RMS school of thought, then only the code needs to be free. The assets aren't. The code, with no assets, is practically worthless to the end-consumer.


until the Darkmod Standalone was released...




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