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Scott Draeker Interview About Loki's Demise

Posted by timothy on from the this-too-shall-pass dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "News forge is running an interview With lokigames president Scott Draeker. Looks like the leaked email wasn't a hoax after all. A very sad day for Linux. AOL? Redhat? IBM? someone please help these guys."

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  1. AOL, IBM, RH by FileNotFound · · Score: 2, Troll

    Neither of these care.

    And why should they? They're just interested in Linux as far as the server market.

    Truth is that linux is a horrible gaming platform.
    Most gamers just want to play games. They don't want to recompile the kernel to play. They want to put the disk in and click "play" and that it.

    Thats why they buy consoles.

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  2. How much money did Draeker personally get??? by Dr.Dubious+DDQ · · Score: 0, Troll

    With reports of employees in the past not getting paid and such, I have to wonder about Loki's financial problems in light of this quote:

    "Draeker: My immediate plans are to take a break and recharge my batteries. After that I'll start looking at different opportunities. "

    Translation - "I don't need to go look for work right away. I have plenty of money for a while."...or am I misinterpreting that?

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  3. Just a second.. by samurphy21 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why is it "linux people" whine and moan about companies like AOL and IBM and their evil, incompetant ways, but yet run to them when a favorite company is in trouble. I'd wager when AOL took over Mirabilis, "linux people" were among the voice of the outraged. This article has the ring of hypocrisy to me.

  4. AOL? Redhat? IBM? by Spankophile · · Score: 5, Troll

    AOL? Redhat? IBM? someone please help these guys.

    The only people that could have helped these guys were Linux Gamers. Where either a) there aren't enough of them, or b) they're not used to having to actually pay for software, c) they didn't like the games Loki did.

    whichever it is... the market has decided.

    Hmm, let's see how long it takes for this to get modded down...

  5. Reality Check by RedSynapse · · Score: 1, Troll
    Think how many people would be running Linux on their desktop if Diablo had come out for Linux six months before Windows!

    ...only the most freakishly obsessed Diablo fanatics would switch their whole operating system to avoid waiting a few months to play the game. Hardy anyone would throw out the capability of running, well almost all their other games, and all their familiar software (Word, Quicken, etc), and dump working in an environment that they have invested a great deal of time learing, instead of waiting a few months for one freakin game to be ported to Windows. Gimme a break.