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Surprised at Valve's audacity to relate "Linux" ports of proprietary !games to Open Source; acting like it's a contribution to the community
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@jacobwb Well… it's not a contribution to the existing community but it could bring a new community. Games are unjustifiably ..
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Yes, true. However, no matter how much proprietary software is "contributed" it never helps the Open Source community.
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It would be completely accurate to call their effort a "contribution to the (GNU/)Linux community", for sure. But to Open Source, no.
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@jacobwb That may or may not be the case and I guess it depends on how many of the new people it brings will go on to be contributors
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@jacobwb Yeah, that would be my contention. It won't benefit the codebase, but it may help to human community that builds it
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@jacobwb Ughm, contributing proprietary software to the *GNU* part of the GNU/Linux community is no contribution (to *free software*) at all
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@jacobwb The only properly free contribution they're doing is the polishing of the open-source Intel drivers. Nothing else.
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Free Software and the GNU/Linux community are two totally different things. One is developers/code and the other is users. Pragmatic or not.
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I'm referring to the "Open Development" method when I say "Open Source", so proprietary software is no contribution to open development. No?
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It may grow the community of Open Source software users, but it doesn't benefit the various software codebases one bit.
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@jacobwb no, not directly, but by getting a load more users, eventually some of them will learn to code & contribute
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I agree, but their effort still shouldn't be thought of as a contribution to Open Source. GNU/Linux in general though, yes, definitely.
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Yes. To be fair though, the Humble Bundle is doing a decent job taking care of that as well.
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@jacobwb Not entirely true. Making proprietary software available to free software users is no contribution to community. Demand is for fs
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@valkov True, but the contribution here would be new users more than the software itself. Like native Photoshop = many new users = benefit.
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