However I suspect what is happening is money is starting to run out. A number of products that they were publishing/producing got transferred to other companies, which suggests they don't have the funds to keep development going. Duke 3D being one of their only properties around, they seem to be trying for another release to get some more cash.
Note to self: When funding poor business venture, seek DNFs funders.
Or, note to readers: never act on anything you read on Slashdot, the defence 'I was temporarily under the influence of Slashdot' has not yet been tested in court.
but 'I did it for the lulz' x3 apparently is legit...
You got to look at companies the same way as the government does, as weird artificial constructs with all the rights of a person. Then take that person and make them over extended on their credit and living hand to mouth on a colossal scale.
If by 'all the rights of a person' you mean 'large capacity for campaign donations', then you'd be correct.
Able to run any apps that are (still) only available on Windows. Many old apps are no longer produced, but runable in Wine (small, low use, very specific proprietary programs that businesses depend on, for instance).
There is a _world_ of difference between variable cost and total/average cost. It may only cost Microsoft a few cents to produce a Vista CD/DVD (not sure what it comes on, been Microsoft free for 4 years now), but the costs of years of development, patent licensing, support, etc. make the actual cost much higher.
As for Microsoft's monopoly pricing, an economist did a study a few years ago (sorry, can't find the link, and google's not helpful), which showed that if Microsoft charged _actual_ monopoly pricing (P=2R for non economists), the price of a Windows license would be, IIRC, ~$600-700.
Why punish those companies for investing in (and giving a boost to) the early internet? If IPV4 is that important and ISPs need that many more addresses, it wouldn't be difficult for some ISPs to purchase blocks of IPs from those companies. Let the market do its thing. Besides, my NetBSD toaster is still waiting for a public IP...
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However I suspect what is happening is money is starting to run out. A number of products that they were publishing/producing got transferred to other companies, which suggests they don't have the funds to keep development going. Duke 3D being one of their only properties around, they seem to be trying for another release to get some more cash.
Note to self:
When funding poor business venture, seek DNFs funders.
Or, note to readers: never act on anything you read on Slashdot, the defence 'I was temporarily under the influence of Slashdot' has not yet been tested in court.
but 'I did it for the lulz' x3 apparently is legit...
You got to look at companies the same way as the government does, as weird artificial constructs with all the rights of a person. Then take that person and make them over extended on their credit and living hand to mouth on a colossal scale.
If by 'all the rights of a person' you mean 'large capacity for campaign donations', then you'd be correct.
Senators only care about one thing, money and power.
And the House is different...how?
I wish I had mod points to mod you up :-(.
Sadly though, the analogy is still missing Linux. Perhaps Tux drives the car?
/s/Unfortunately/Fortunately
There, fixed that for you.
Able to run any apps that are (still) only available on Windows. Many old apps are no longer produced, but runable in Wine (small, low use, very specific proprietary programs that businesses depend on, for instance).
I find it disturbing that parent was modded funny.
Make Mac OS X like Windows Vista
Please, for the love of all that is good and holy, don't do this Apple.There is a _world_ of difference between variable cost and total/average cost. It may only cost Microsoft a few cents to produce a Vista CD/DVD (not sure what it comes on, been Microsoft free for 4 years now), but the costs of years of development, patent licensing, support, etc. make the actual cost much higher. As for Microsoft's monopoly pricing, an economist did a study a few years ago (sorry, can't find the link, and google's not helpful), which showed that if Microsoft charged _actual_ monopoly pricing (P=2R for non economists), the price of a Windows license would be, IIRC, ~$600-700.
In His infinite Noodliness, has touched the ISO with His Noodly Appendage.
You forgot a step: Phase 3: Blame ship, produce satellite images for proof Phase 3.5: ??? Phase 4: Profit
Firefox, using less than 100 MB of ram? Sign me up!
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Why punish those companies for investing in (and giving a boost to) the early internet? If IPV4 is that important and ISPs need that many more addresses, it wouldn't be difficult for some ISPs to purchase blocks of IPs from those companies. Let the market do its thing. Besides, my NetBSD toaster is still waiting for a public IP...