Once again we see the
common misconception. The "Free" that makes linux so great is not the
money you save by downloading it off an
FTP site, but the availibilty of the uncompiled source code which is included on those site as well. I, personally pay for my distributions for two reasons.
1. I like having a nifty
manual explining these distro's installers
2. I like to support linux advancement by giving comapnies a financial reason to improve the OS
I purchase
Loki Software's
linux ports of games for the same reasons.
You want free
games, then go out and commit some time to a number of free linux game projects. Or better yet, open up those
wallets, shake the dust of a few bills and give people a little compensation for the hours spent behind a desk coding.
It's about the "free" (as in speech) not the "free" (as in
beer).
Besides the
GPL only requires free distribution for those programs which use the code from other GPLed software. If you write a program that runs on
Linux or x
BSD etc.. without using any
code from those
programs, hey you can do with it whatever you like. (although you may not make the extreme Linux-Radicals happy about it).