If You Port It, They Will Come

An anonymous reader submits "An excellent rant^H^H^H^Harticle is up over at LinuxLaboratory.org, encouraging proprietary companies that make software for Windows to provide a full-featured equivalent for Linux. The argument being made that users aren't cheap skates, they will pay for good software. But many companies that port software to Linux will only ship stripped-down versions, leading to people not buying the software when they can buy the complete version for Windows, then the company not providing the software for Linux because it didnt sell. The argument is made that if the Linux version were equivalent to the Windows version, then people will buy it."

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Unreal Tournament 2003 Linux Demo

[javilon]

You can grab it here:

ftp://ftp.stenstad.net/mirrors/ut2003/UT2003-Dem o- Linux.sh.bin

This is One of the excellent games that will be released for Linux. This one and whatever Carmack does are the flagships of PC first person shooters. And both run in Linux. Things are improving quick.

Go support them. I did buy my copy of Return to Castle Wolfenstein for linux. And I will buy Doom III packaged for Linux if they sell it. This way they can tell that there is a Linux market.

Re:Buzzword is as buzzword does.

[timothy]

Terry wrote: It's like the staunch Democrat, whi won't pass up an opportunity to get his picture taken with the President of the United States, even though that president is a Republican. Or the staunch Republican, who gets his picture taken with Teddy Kennedy, to put on his Christmas cards."

Terry, not every Santa Claus is portrayed by Teddy Kennedy -- only the ones with the rosiest cheeks and noses.

timothy