There was that 3d filesystem navigator that was used in the Jurassic Park movie.

So what? That doesn't allow someone to take their non-free assets and do with it as they please.

And the ROM hacking community probably makes up a hugely small fraction of game buyers so I really doubt Square Enix could even care less.

I'm sure they are quaking in their boots over that.

But that wasn't their claim. Their claim was that "A lot of great PC games were even more successful than they otherwise might have been because they opened themselves up to the mod community".

A lot is a huge stretch. I doubt you can name more than a half dozen.

Yes, because you aren't allowed to use someone else's non-free assets without their permission.

You know I'd take your condescending tone more seriously if you didn't have spelling and grammar mistakes all throughout your post.

Unless they had it disabled the Red Hat systems they used would have had SELinux enabled by default so if their linux systems really were a sieve then that doesn't speak to highly of SELinux and the NSA.

Whoosh!

Linus may be adamant, but the Linux kernel has plenty of its own shitty code inside of it.

Ah yes because the Chinese government has a long history of being trustworthy and never lying to it's citizens or attempting to rewrite history.