Emulation

3569 readers

8 users here now

Community to talk about emulation & roms.

RULES:

1.) No bigotry

LINKS:

Emulation Wiki - Your source for everything emulation :)
[WIP] Emulation Links Wiki - My personal wiki for emulation links, please help contribute!
r/Roms Megathread - Megathread of Roms
RetroArch - RetroArch is the popular front-end to libretro which is a simple API that allows for the creation of games and emulators.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

lnxprcy@lemmy.ml

DuckStation Creator Considers Shutting Down Emulator Amid License Change (www.retronews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to c/emulation@lemmy.ml

33 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

As long as we don't call them free, libre, or open source I don't care. We shouldn't make the terminology any more confusing for those.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There’s limited vocab to choose from & source available isn’t an appealing one

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

It doesn't really roll off the tongue, I get it, but it's the best and most widely used term for software whose source is available to view but not modify and/or redistribute.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it definitely is more appealing from a marketing perspective.

I do understand why some projects might wanna use the term, it's to their advantage to be associated with "open source" even if the source code itself has a proprietary license.

The problem is that then it makes it harder / more confusing to check for actually openly licensed code, since then it's not clear what term to use. Already "free software" can be confused with "free as in free beer".

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Right. We want clear labels else they become meaningless like “boost immune system”. There probably is something that can fix the phrasing when someone finds it, but it also must not be poisoned by those going too hard into free software as a lifestyle or corporations looking to circumvent the premise. What it should be called tho, I don’t know.