I just discovered GOG and think it's a great idea to bring all those old games back to life. However, I'm not going to play old games on my PC much but instead on my gaming handheld.
The Pandora ( openpandora.org ) is a powerful ARM based handheld running Linux. It won't play most of the games GOG offers at this time. However, there are quite a few classic games which have open source engine clones available or which have been made open source. If the GOG game selection starts to include more of these games, it would be great to have them available to buy for the Pandora, packed ready to run. Of course, the same applies to other platforms like desktop Linux, Mac OS and possibly even Windows Mobile devices, iPhones or whatever.
Games that come to mind, a few of them being already available on GOG, others not yet:
-Lucas Arts Adventures (ScummVM)
-Transport Tycoon Deluxe (OpenTTD)
-Descent (& Descent 2)
-id Software FPS games
-Duke Nukem 3D
-Ultima 7 (Exult)
-Marathon 1 & 2 (Aleph One)
-Another World & Flashback (Raw, REminiscence)
Selling very old games for use in an emulator (tested to work and packaged with the emulator) is also an interesting option. For example, Warcraft 2 seems to run well on the Pandora version of DOSbox already.
Of course, it would be even more amazing if GOG could actually work towards creating open source engines for classic games. I'm not talking about writing everything from scratch as that probably would be too expensive to manage but instead supporting existing open source efforts by solving the legal and technical problems that prevent them from being completed. An example would be the FIFE engine which has some support for Fallout 1 & 2 content already but needs some technical and legal support in order to actually make the full games run on it.