I deeply agree with you. When reading this post, it sounds to me like some kind ethical pro activism, ensuring a bunch of geek will say "Oh thank you, this is so nice". For sure the fps on linux desktop is not an issue for AMD/ATI. It is more likely to be a kind of social engineering : more sysadmin than gamers read '/.'... More sysadmin will think, fine, I'll be able to set dual head in short time finally using those affordable ATI cards... Gamers buying a new PC will go window anyway...
Yeah, for sure there isn't any linux user who want to use VB, but It's definitely a good idea to provide people using M$ technologies an easy (straigth forward) way to run their existing apps on linux. The first advantage is clearly the opportunity to run the same code on any OS, and the second one is that many small and medium companies would switch to linux if they have no more compiler-like difficulties to face.
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I deeply agree with you. When reading this post, it sounds to me like some kind ethical pro activism, ensuring a bunch of geek will say "Oh thank you, this is so nice". For sure the fps on linux desktop is not an issue for AMD/ATI. It is more likely to be a kind of social engineering : more sysadmin than gamers read '/.' ... More sysadmin will think, fine, I'll be able to set dual head in short time finally using those affordable ATI cards... Gamers buying a new PC will go window anyway...
Yeah, for sure there isn't any linux user who want to use VB, but It's definitely a good idea to provide people using M$ technologies an easy (straigth forward) way to run their existing apps on linux. The first advantage is clearly the opportunity to run the same code on any OS, and the second one is that many small and medium companies would switch to linux if they have no more compiler-like difficulties to face.