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Interview With id Software's Robert A. Duffy
LEXI writes: "Accompanying our recent first set of Q3Radiant Tutorials I had the chance to interview one of the programmers behind the editor and the new engine, Mr. Robert A. Duffy of id software. 10 questions asked, 10 answers given. Topics range from personal details, education, job description, over to the new engine and the new tools, to violence in games and George W. Bush. The English original can be found here; the German translation resides at this very spot. The interview should be interesting for as well the quake player desperately awaiting the new engine, as the fresh or old-school mapper."
The entire premise that linux is 'revolutionary', and that it will somehow supplant the Beast of Redmond as the desktop OS of choice is entirely flawed. The linux craze was a creation by stock market speculators, brokerage houses, and venture capitalists. Their purpose was to pump up the valuations of certain linux-oriented corporations. When their valuations were sufficiently high they dumped their shares and made obscene profits.
The sad thing was the number of highly intelligent people who were swept up in this fraud. I have several friends, respected and published scientists, who put a lot of money in these stocks, and subsequently lost a lot of money. Now that H. Blodgett is being investigated for his role in some of these pump and dump schemes, I wonder how long it will be before the investigation reaches to the upper echelon's of today's linux-biz powerhouses.
Many of you are slow to wake up to this fact, wishing that it wasn't true only proves your culpability. The truth is obvious in light of these facts. Linux is a fraud. If we look back with an objective eye, it's quite plainly so. The moral high-ground linux once held has subsided beneath a festering swamp of corruption.
If you know someone who is still a linux advocate, and they have been made aware of these disheartening facts, please bitch slap them, because they should know better.
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A great corporate move
Though the price of linux is cheap(free), its TCO(total cost of ownership) is among the highest in the industry. In light of this fact I can think of an excellent corporate move for VASoftare(LNUX). But time is short they must act before they burn through the remainder of their cash reserves. They should quit the linux business, because its the right thing to do. They could re-emerge as hot tub vendor. That's something that doesn't suck( linux sucks!
Klerk, I hate you.
That is all.
1. Smash it up
2. Rock tha house
OTOH, if this works for the IE-using script kiddiez that read /. maybe this is a good thing..
That's somewhat ignorant of you.
The guy said he got a first post. He didn't say it was that particular post that claimed the first post status. For all you know, he got first post under his own login in another article.
STFU