That’s not flaming- hardly anyone here as actually seen allout flaming. We’re just being honest.
“I’m thinking of this: companies could sell games and allow people to modify them as they wish. Before someone says ‘mods exist for a reason’, I’m thinking about engine and other things. So I would buy a CD and then I can do whatever I want with the program (but distributing it for free or selling copies). Programmers could tweak the engine a little bit, create patches and all that creating miriads of possibilities for further development of the game. The company holding the copyrights of the game may elect some major user-edited versions to be the ones they will be supporting and these would run on the official multiplayer servers and all. Maybe games that run only in Windows would make their way into Linux this way. The last major game that ran on Linux that I saw was good old Quake I (maybe some other blockbusters have made their way into linux too, but I don’t have much knowledge on it).”
Companies would lose money off this as it’d be easily distrubited over the internet. If this was done, there’s no reason for companies to even make complete products; thus, quality drops. The entire idea of this even happening is foolish. Stealing someone’s work doesn’t get you any closer to this idea- it only makes it that much more unlikely. You’re backing up those 2% of hackers helps thwart your own idea. Congrats.
“The way things are today, when I buy a game I may only play it and create mods. If I try doing anything to the source code I may be sued.”
Uh, yeah, understandably. You’re messing with copyrighted material. Ever heard of a patent Ren? It’s the same deal. You don’t get to rip off people for free in this world.
“Now, some elaborating. I am the layspeople in this area so I know I may have commited some mistakes in what I said, but what matters to me is the thing as a whole. I know this is an utopic idea and it will never come true. I’m just expressing opinions here. And last, I know that with an open source companies can’t keep their things as secret as they are today. But I think this would make competition tend more towards quality.”
It’ll work when the day comes that world becomes a perfect Communist system without any sort of errors. Like I said, your backing them only hurts your own goals.
“We can all elaborate further now. Or just keep calling me an asshole. I’m starting to get used to being flamed. I think is must be part of being evil.”
You’re not getting flamed, and you certainly aren’t being evil. You’re only being stupid, and I’m serious about that. All you’re doing is spouting out random garbage to go against the rest of people and attribute it to being “evil.” You’re actually only showing your ignorance and a huge variety of subject matter.