And we’re on Lemmy, so any LLC is inherently evil. /s

There are tons of people who have still never heard of GOG. This really is a necessary advertisement campaign.

The developers of Heroic are in regular contact with GOG employees, and they also get a cut from any GOG purchase made through the Heroic client.

The end result is still part of GOG’s revenue going toward the development of Heroic.

It doesn’t meet your high standard and that’s okay. I prefer to count my blessings in this regard.

GOG is funding the FOSS Heroic Games Launcher through an affiliate partnership: https://heroicgameslauncher.com/donate

You legally didn’t “own” your physical games either if you haven’t noticed.

It’s not legally binding, since it isn’t part of the user agreement you review when buying games on Steam.

When have they not had the full package on GOG?

There really is no difference. For almost all intents and purposes, GOG’s offline installers can be treated the same way as physical CDs of way back then, with one of the only exceptions being that you cannot resell them.

Nowadays the Heroic Games Launcher is the preferred solution for downloading and running GOG games. It’s a community-run project, but officially affiliated with GOG.

The Heroic Games Launcher can download and run GOG games. It’s a community-run project, but officially affiliated with GOG.

Frostpunk 2 is also available DRM-free on GOG!
https://www.gog.com/en/game/frostpunk_2

What exactly did Palworld steal? Surely you have sources for your claims

Yes, you throw away the code and write it again.

Go visit https://fedia.io and then tell them again that they’re on Lemmy.

This you?

https://forum.qt.io/topic/142885/rewriting-qt-in-rust

Everyone in this thread is already using Linux and just using this thread to circlejerk about issues the average Windows user won’t care about.

*price

No, this is not correct at all! You keep limiting yourself to the terms “open source” and “closed source”.

Any code you create, you own by copyright. Even if it is public on GitHub, you’re still the lone copyright owner and no one is legally allowed to do with it what isn’t allowed by a license.

Projects on GitHub without an open source license are only “functionally open source” to the same extent that pirated games are “functionally free”.

Correct, you are allowed to click the “fork” button and nothing else. You’re still not allowed to download, use, modify, compile or redistribute the code in any way that doesn’t involve the “fork” button.