Re: [Trisquel-users] Steam client coming to Linux. Will you guys still hate it?

[chris]

So the software on the desktop computer might be free software. This is  
software where the source code is available and anybody can make changes, fix  
code, and generally improve upon it.

The software on the server that is used in conjunction with this free  
software that runs on the desktop computer however does not necessarily have  
this code available. In that instance the software running on the server is  
non-free. If the source code was available under a free license that is  
running on the server then it would not be proprietary.