The less programmers work for free on proprietary game systems, the more they can work on open source games, where they don't face criminal charges and where their work enriches everybody, instead of a specific corporation.
Be honest brother, hardly anyone plays open source games and they aren't up to par with proprietary games. Proprietary games have had similar issues (although without a jail sentence) forever and the 20 quake-likes out there have existed forever but the communities that play them are still a niche.
The less programmers work for free on proprietary game systems, the more they can work on open source games, where they don't face criminal charges and where their work enriches everybody, instead of a specific corporation.