Free Software vastly overlooked (Score 1)

It is interesting to see that Free Software is apparently not an option for anyone. People at the GDC talk about giving their players the ability to create things. They should realize that it works best when you don't actually grant the user a controled creation tool. By sharing the software, releasing it under a Free Software license, people will come up with creative ways of doing things and the game will evolve. I guess this concept is some kind of alien to those people immersed 24/7 in a proprietary software culture. Well, that gives a nice competitive advantage to the small initiatives such as www.crystalspace.org or www.nevrax.org. Internet was built on Free Software, virtual universes will truly emerge on the basis of Free Software.