Free games or not free games?

Hi!
I am producing a free, Open Source game, but I wanted to share opinions on this topic. Do you think that today, creating a free game is useful? Would you support it, also with money (be sincere...)?

Open Source games are excellent, but they usually requre "registration" and a donation dont they?

Yes they do....

Also if you sign up with your e-mail address you get lots of spam from them.

That's not true. Is completely the opposite, Open Source means that you can access a repository *without* registering to anything and compile your own copy.
Another thing: Open Source isn't the same thing as free. Some times Open Source can be commercial. The point is: if you have enough knowledge and possibilities, you can modify the application. The stuff mentioned before are the Donationware. Sometimes donationware things are opensource too.

You can get Open Source operating systems like Linux, and you can copy and alter them, yeah its not the same as Freeware or Shareware...

Nope I would not support it at all. There has to be some catch nothing is ever really truely free.

Open source basicly means that the certain parts of the source code can be edited by anyone with programming abilitys.

...and then freely distributed

I guess y'all do have a point there but there are not too many modable games that I play or can play.

Games aren't meant to be free. Nothing in this world is free, I rather pay for a game I know I can get support for if I need it then get a game that is free that can F*** my computer up and then they can't do anything. My opinion!

Theres a serious difference between Open Source GPL/BSD software and Freeware and Shareware out there.

I will educate all on this difference.

Open Source applications arent owned by anyone (at least not in the same sense), thus you hold an equal level of ownership of the code upon downloading as does the creator of that code.  Lemme re-iterate that, you become JUST AS MUCH IN OWNERSHIP, as the CREATOR and INITIAL OWNER, of that peice of software.  The creator cant take this ownership from you, once it is your it is yours forever.  The owner is incapable of transferring the software license of that code, he can only choose to distribute future versions of it undera  different license (if it's bsd).  GPL is far more restrictive in terms of what can be done to it, it cant ever be closed, and it can never leave GPL.

An open source item is not corruptable, nobody can sneak back doors into them or spyware or adware, because if they did the next skilled programmer would just patch it with their own code removing that adware,  he could even start his own fork of that project and he cant be legally touched as he is in just as much ownership of that code.  GPL guarantees your ownership, you dont own anything thats under any other license, you just own the license to use it.  You never owned windows, you never owned photoshop, or even kazaa or napster or itunes, only licenses to use them.  You cant make changes to them, you cant patch them and redistribute your improvements, youd be sued.  The GPL and BSD *WELCOMES* and encourages you to change and redistribute and use bits of it in your own projects.

That is what sets apart freeware from openware.  It is free in every sense of the word, free as in free speech, and as in free beer.

sorry for the long post, but maybe it will enlighten some, then again maybe it wont