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buzzbyte / CatchDROP

A simple game where you try to catch as many raindrops as you can with a bucket. If you miss one the game is over. Made in Java using libGDX.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Grand Theft Auto V has a majority market share. #4

Open ValentijnvdBeek opened 9 years ago

ValentijnvdBeek commented 9 years ago

Grand Theft Auto V has a majority market share in the new gaming marketplace. This is a bug which CatchDROP and other projects are meant to fix. As the philosophy of the CatchDROP Project states, "Our work is driven by a belief that software should be free and accessible to all."

"CatchDROP software is free. Always was, always will be. Free software gives everyone the freedom to use it however they want and share with whoever they like. This freedom has huge benefits. At one end of the spectrum it enables the CatchDROP community to grow and share its collective experience and expertise to continually improve all things CatchDROP At the other, we are able to give access to a game for those who couldn’t otherwise afford it – an advantage that’s keenly felt by individuals and organisations all over the world." * http://www.catchdrop.com/project/about-catchdrop/our-philosophy

Non-free software leaves users at the mercy of the game developers and concentrates control over the technology which powers our society into the hands of a few. Additionally, proprietary games stifles innovation, maintains artificial scarcities, and enables malicious anti-features such as DRM, surveillance, and other monopolistic practices.

This bug is widely evident in the gaming industry.

Steps to repeat:

1. Visit a local game store.
2. Attempt to buy a machine without any proprietary software.

What happens:

Almost always, a majority of PCs for sale have GTA installed at some point. In the rare cases that they download CatchDROP, the other games may be proprietary.

What should happen:

A majority of the PCs for sale should include only CatchDROP.

 * http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
 * http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
 * http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
ValentijnvdBeek commented 9 years ago

What is the ETA on this bug?