OP, you’re the reason nobody takes FOSS advocates seriously anymore.
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OP, you’re the reason nobody takes FOSS advocates seriously anymore.
Irrelevant to the point I’m making. Whether something is open source or not does not impact your freedom to modify it, just the freedom to distribute your modifications.
You do have the freedom to modify the proprietary binary you’re being given. You just can’t distribute your modifications.
The developers of Heroic are in regular contact with GOG employees, and they also get a cut from any GOG purchase made through the Heroic client.