From: Theodore Somers <knowledgeofnations@outlook.com>
To: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament!
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 21:33:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CO1PR08MB6515950FF7C0E6164533D05AC7469@CO1PR08MB6515.namprd08.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1n39V6-0005fn-O6@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 12/30/21 8:26 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> For practical success, it is desirable to make the game easy to
> install.
>
> To respect users' freedom, it is important to avoid dependence on any
> nonfree software.
>
> To let the community make sure the program is safe and not malware, we
> need to encourage users to package the program for distros. (See
> https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html.)
>
> It is important to achieve all three goals. The second is often
> ignored, but then the free software idea is forgotten.
> The third is one we often forget.
>
> Can you find a good way to achieve all three?
>
Wouldn't packaging for specific distros make the game less accessible?
Creating a specific guix or flatpak (or even debian or arch) repository
could allow more access to the game(s) rather than waiting for
distribution maintainers to act.
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-29 6:07 LibreJam - FSF* should host a Libre Game development tournament! Jacob Hrbek
2021-12-29 17:30 ` Dennis Payne
2021-12-29 18:07 ` Jacob Hrbek
2021-12-30 4:28 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-30 7:13 ` Jacob Hrbek
2021-12-30 16:53 ` Dennis Payne
2021-12-31 4:26 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-31 5:32 ` Jacob Hrbek
2022-01-02 6:59 ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-02 7:32 ` Jacob Hrbek
2022-01-03 16:39 ` Michael McMahon
2022-01-04 8:43 ` Jacob Hrbek
2022-01-05 3:54 ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-05 5:06 ` Michael McMahon
2022-01-05 5:56 ` Jean Louis
2022-01-05 9:21 ` Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
2022-01-07 4:21 ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-07 9:49 ` Florian Snow
2022-01-07 9:53 ` [FSFLA] " Ismael Luceno
2022-01-07 23:23 ` Dennis Payne
2022-01-09 19:11 ` Jean Louis
2022-01-14 15:26 ` Ismael Luceno
2022-01-18 23:03 ` Dennis Payne
2022-01-19 13:27 ` Ismael Luceno
2022-01-20 3:12 ` Sebastian Silva
2022-02-14 16:11 ` Michael McMahon
2022-01-07 10:32 ` Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
2022-01-05 10:38 ` [FSFLA] " Ismael Luceno
2022-01-05 14:37 ` Jacob Hrbek
2022-01-05 15:10 ` Ismael Luceno
2022-01-05 19:48 ` Dennis Payne
2022-01-06 15:11 ` Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
2022-01-06 17:22 ` Ismael Luceno
2022-01-04 3:01 ` Dennis Payne
2022-01-04 8:45 ` Jacob Hrbek
2021-12-31 5:33 ` Theodore Somers [this message]
2022-01-01 4:47 ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-01 9:07 ` Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
2022-01-01 16:14 ` Jacob Hrbek
2022-01-01 16:18 ` Jacob Hrbek
2021-12-30 8:34 ` Yasuaki Kudo
2021-12-30 9:33 ` Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
2021-12-30 23:35 ` John Sullivan
2021-12-31 1:14 ` Dennis Payne
2021-12-30 9:00 ` Félicien Pillot
2021-12-31 4:26 ` Richard Stallman
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