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  • Legally speaking you lose the license to all the games because you don’t own the games only a license to use those games.

    And the game owners have only licensed the games to the gaming platform (steam, etc) with the license to re-license those to you. Ceasing to exist the middleman, also your end of the license is invalidated.

    You would need to negotiate a license to use each game again with somebody else or you are effectively pirating the game.

    This doesn’t matter if there are DRM or no DRM. This not a technical aspect. Pirating means using without being legally allowed to, circumventing DRM or not is just the difference between breaking into your home or finding a non locked door to enter without damaging the house. Its still stealing.

    Don’t get mad, I do not condone DRM and I don’t think piracy is stealing, it was just an example from a legal point of view

    IANAL, but had to study the field for work related stuff.




  • I am not debating it’s good or bad from a technical perspective, i don’t care, i am sure it’s good otherwise why use it at all.

    Why are you focusing on that? I never said it’s been forced, i never said its bad or evil, i never discredited it.

    I think it’s worth understanding if the non technical points are just FUD or not, i worry about the future of Linux, not the future of it’s init system whatever it is, all it need to do is satisfy it’s function and OpenRC do it as well as systemd (there, with the small d is it different?).

    I was under the impression SystemD was the name, with the capitals and all. Will fix the top post if this is somehow offending you. Whatever.