I've got a good buddy who owns a MAC.
Every now and then when a PC game lands in his lap he'll contact and gift me with it.
I've received a few hot-off the-press games in this manner.

I like to return the favor whenever I can so when Gate includes a giftable MAC title, I will usually pass it over to him..

I was considering the same with GOG (now that they carry MAC) but the situation felt more nefarious and I just realized why:

When I gift from Gate - I lose that MAC copy permanently. On GOG, technically, one could give away the same game into infinity and therefor it would really be taking a huge dump on an honor system.

I would suggest to GOG to consider a gifting feature eventually however. A feature where we can legitimately gift an owned game thus removing which ever version we gifted permanently from our account.

The reason that I would find it beneficial to GOG is indirect marketing.
I feel that it would be safe to assume that Gate now has a lot of MAC clients who would have never even known Gate existed had they not been offered free MAC games for signing up.

Also, Gate, like Greenman, is notorious for hosting a lot of obscure games that can not really be found anywhere else thus leading to the MAC clients mentioning to their other PC friends that Gate just so happens to host a title that they have been searching for.

So what you are saying is that you'd like GOG to have a permanent buy one get one free sale because an unrelated DD site has a loophole in their system structure. Because marketing. Ok.

nope, not at all.

You buy 1 license, not 2. gog kindly let you choose for which OS you want it, and even leave it open to you in case you change OS later, or have two OS's at home. It is still only 1 license - If you want to pirate one for your friend...

Just because you can exploit GG system, do not mean you should do the same here.

I'm meaning once you gift it, it is gone for good unless you purchase another copy.

Much like if I had a physical PC game that I was bored of and handed it off to a friend.

No.

You want to gift your friend a game? Buy a gift. Unless, you want to do it exactly like on Gamersgate, when clicking "download" automatically blocks the option to gift the game.

This would also be good, an optional inventory box for games we purchased and had not yet officially claimed for ourselves - especially for duplicates we may receive.

Other than not being able to permanently give away claimed but unwanted games - Gate has a pretty keen system set up - I also think it has got their name around more so than had they not allowed that freedom.

It's a DRM free digital copy. It doesn't mean anything that it'll be gone from your account. You could still have it and keep it indefinitely as a local copy.

And as amok says, what you buy is 1 (one) license for a game. You're given a choice of platforms, but that's what it amounts to. The moment a copy of the single game you bought is installed on a machine not owned by you, you are engaging in piracy.

Non-transferable licenses that bind to account are the best thing that happened to videogaming since the Magnavox Odyssey.

K.C. Munchkin and Pick Axe Pete? =D