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A lot of old games have become unplayable on modern hardware and operating systems. I wrote an article about how making games open source will keep them playable far into the future.

I also discuss how making games open source could be beneficial to developers and companies.

Feedback and constructive criticism are most welcome, and in keeping with the open source spirit, I will give you credit if I make any edits based on your feedback.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Capitalism has scribbled right over the "social good" bits of that. We can pretty much single handedly thank Disney and lobbying.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Truely. Copyright terms are absolutely ridiculous and massively too long for their intended goal.