While OSS does protect the rights of the user, it doesn’t do a whole lot for developers who can’t afford legal battles. Open source licensing, in my opinion, made OSS projects like Azureus and Gaim more at risk of being modified and re-released as spiware-infested proprietary software that did happen by the way, and it also damaged the reputation of those two programs imo. I like OSS, and without it I might still be stuck with Windows as the only OS available to me however, I’ve also seen some great proprietary applications, and I think it’s detrimental to expect every piece of software to be open source. The reason why I wouldn’t open source my software, and don’t expect any one else to is because it complicates things for the developer(s).
I don’t think I would release my game as open source software even though I think the first few versions will be freeware. Personally I’m learning C++ and want to start developing a game I’ve been conceptualizing for a long time.
