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posted by cmn32480 on Friday May 12 2017, @06:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the because-FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

No need to sell off your minions to make a quick buck, as Dungeon 2 is currently completely free on the Humble Store.

Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/dungeons-2-is-currently-free-on-the-humble-store-for-a-limited-time-has-a-linux-version.9643

That's pretty much it. Happy gaming. -cmn32480

Here is link for game at the Humble Store - just under 22 hours left... -- I got it yesterday and it worked for me -- CoolHand


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 13 2017, @05:14AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 13 2017, @05:14AM (#509005)

    It's understandable, but you're actually completely wrong in your thinking:

    > But of course it's free beer! Nobody else read the fucking title and thought they open-sourced it and all.
    > It's even written "free ON THE humble STORE", that is, a place that SELL things.

    Actually, the GPLs and most other OSS licenses explicitly allow selling OSS! But they also require providing the source for free. So, yes, OSS is SOLD in STORES, where it's free as in unchained, but not free as in beer unless you mean the beer recipe. Put in the hops and the electricity to boil it, make sure you have enough space in your carboys and hard drives and have sterilized your bottles and downloaded any library dependencies and all that yourself, and get your alcoholic binary that will probably be a bit or more different than their particular compiler version.

    OSS doesn't mean non-capitalist. Most OSS work is by employees, getting paid (yes, more than 50% - phoronix posts these breakdowns by individual company and noncommercial yearly). Much of that software gets sold, or support for it, or etc etc etc.

    Maybe info should be free, but this is definitely the current law and business situation.

    So, your statement is literally so wrong that it's inverted. Stores sell OSS.

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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday May 13 2017, @05:47AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Saturday May 13 2017, @05:47AM (#509021) Journal

    The headline currently says: "Dungeons 2 is currently free on the Humble Store for a limited time, has a Linux version". It would be odd to describe something as "currently free [...] for a limited time" if it were under the GPL or another open-source licence.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 13 2017, @07:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 13 2017, @07:16PM (#509232)

    Capitalism is a method of production where the -ownership- is concentrated in a few individuals and which exhibits a top-down (autocratic) structure--in contrast with Socialism, where -ownership- is distributed among all of the workers and exhibiting a bottom-up (democratic) structure.

    You appear to be referring to non-profit.
    Profit is NOT unique to Capitalism; the worker-owners of the Mondragon Cooperative regularly compete with and often eat the lunch of Capitalist (employer/employee) operations.

    ...and, as butthurt (6141) has noted, the "limited time" thing is the fly in the ointment here.

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    In addition, OSS is Open Sound System, an old thing that is similar in scope to ALSA and PulseAudio.
    FOSS is a unique term that refers to the Free and Open Source paradigm.
    You should use that distinctive term.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 2) by bart9h on Wednesday May 17 2017, @03:19AM

    by bart9h (767) on Wednesday May 17 2017, @03:19AM (#510905)

    Duh, I know that very well.

    My point was that it was obvious that the "free" in the summary was referring to "free beer".