Last time I went into my local Best Buy they had an entire Linux section, including commercial games.
Not here, at least not the last time I looked (early 2002).
Then again I've been buying games through Amazon lately (bundled with CDs and books where it makes sense to offset shipping costs) or getting them as gifts, so I haven't bought retail in a while.
Even if I don't go at it, I wish you (and everyone who takes the challenge) best of luck. Maybe this will be the thing that "mainstreams" Linux on the desktop.
1) When the game is complete, LGP will publish your game. We will
pay 100% of the costs to have it produced, marketed, and retailed
worldwide.
Anyone have any idea of how effective LGP is at this? Does "worldwide" mean "HTTP downloads from around the world" or do they really have a shrink-wrapped, on the shelf capability?
I've sure as heck never seen a Linux-specific game on a shelf at Best Buy or some other place like that.
Because otherwise, well. The "we'll give you 70% of the revenue" is not so enticing. AFAIK the bulk of game sales is still through the retail channel, not online sales.
I'm genuinely interested - this looks like an Linux project that would be really worthwile to participate in (ie, it has a better than average possibility of turning a profit).
So you can justify posting a 8-year old badly written and poorly translated article in an obscure German magazine merely because you think it's a novel way to "stick it to The Man"?
And here I thought that we'd never run out of material to generate amazingly insightful comments and unlimited nasal chuckles from the peanut gallery.
It isn't. My point was that while the schools may find this a nice tool to curtail bandwidth uses, it's hardly incompatible with what the industry wants to do, which is to stop file swapping.
For the university it may be a technical issue, but in reality it's a legal one.
It's killing two birds with one stone, and one of them didn't need killing.
"I don't really want to be looking that closely at what people are doing, and you'd probably just as soon not have me looking either," said Brad Thomas, a network specialist at the University of Wyoming who is helping manage the Audible Magic project. "But it's getting to be the only way to control our bandwidth."
Oh, so it's about bandwidth now? Interesting. Yes, the RIAA, champion of bandwith-starved college kids everywhere.
I was thinking about maybe comparing Microsoft support to Open Source support.
Yes, and while for the first you pay a lot and receive nothing, for the second you pay nothing and receive a lot. A lot of condescending insults, snide remarks and concentrated hostility. Sometimes even some help. But then again, that happens also with Microsoft support, albeit not as often as most folks would like (the help part).
But that's probably not something we want to discuss here on Slashdot.
I find it intriguing that you can extrapolate what Microsoft does with a hobby project that apparently is more about a few people feeling very '1337' than to produce anything worthwile and the "anti-competitive behavior" they'll be engaged in at some point in the future. And in a market where the company loses money, no less.
I understand why these cute stories get posted here (heck, the next thing we'll see is some loser r0xx0r 'hacker' trying to plaster a Tux poster in a wall of the Microsoft campus and then suing them for "curtailing his freedom of speech"), but this is going a bit to far, no?
Not that people who review the latest Linux distros that ArE pOiSeD tO TaKe OvEr THE dEsKtOP AnY DaY NoW wItH SoMe AmAzInG FeAtUrEs AnD ThE AdDeD BoNuS OF A GrApHiCaL InStAlLeR* ever do that.
I don't know Mr. Longinus. How about you read the rest of my posts in this same thread and you impart some more of your impressive wisdom? Perhaps my "ignorant assumptions" just are not "clicking" for you, hmmm?
Yes, I know that. But is Phoenix Technologies having a fit over a Mozilla project simply because of the name, or because they were planning to embed a browser in the BIOS? The text of the submission apprently makes the link between what the snazzy BIOS can do and the browser itself, but not necessarily with the name "infringement".
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I like your reverse-reverse psychology.
Let's just say I'm about 400 miles from the nearest store, if their maps are correct.
Not here, at least not the last time I looked (early 2002).
Then again I've been buying games through Amazon lately (bundled with CDs and books where it makes sense to offset shipping costs) or getting them as gifts, so I haven't bought retail in a while.
Even if I don't go at it, I wish you (and everyone who takes the challenge) best of luck. Maybe this will be the thing that "mainstreams" Linux on the desktop.
No Microcenter here. Do you know if Fry's Electronics carries Linux titles?
Anyone have any idea of how effective LGP is at this? Does "worldwide" mean "HTTP downloads from around the world" or do they really have a shrink-wrapped, on the shelf capability?
I've sure as heck never seen a Linux-specific game on a shelf at Best Buy or some other place like that.
Because otherwise, well. The "we'll give you 70% of the revenue" is not so enticing. AFAIK the bulk of game sales is still through the retail channel, not online sales.
I'm genuinely interested - this looks like an Linux project that would be really worthwile to participate in (ie, it has a better than average possibility of turning a profit).
You might want to have that keyboard looked at by a specialist.
LOL. I guess not =)
I got the other one about the Penguin Gallery, but is this supposed to be a joke?
Well, I should add that's how the DoD does it. I'm sure the Navy does it some other way, and the Department of State some other way, and so on.
Last I heard, this is how they do it.
So you can justify posting a 8-year old badly written and poorly translated article in an obscure German magazine merely because you think it's a novel way to "stick it to The Man"?
And here I thought that we'd never run out of material to generate amazingly insightful comments and unlimited nasal chuckles from the peanut gallery.
But I guess we've hit a new low.
Hope your case of moronitis gets better.
For the university it may be a technical issue, but in reality it's a legal one.
It's killing two birds with one stone, and one of them didn't need killing.
Oh, so it's about bandwidth now? Interesting. Yes, the RIAA, champion of bandwith-starved college kids everywhere.
I was thinking about maybe comparing Microsoft support to Open Source support.
Yes, and while for the first you pay a lot and receive nothing, for the second you pay nothing and receive a lot. A lot of condescending insults, snide remarks and concentrated hostility. Sometimes even some help. But then again, that happens also with Microsoft support, albeit not as often as most folks would like (the help part).
But that's probably not something we want to discuss here on Slashdot.
I find it intriguing that you can extrapolate what Microsoft does with a hobby project that apparently is more about a few people feeling very '1337' than to produce anything worthwile and the "anti-competitive behavior" they'll be engaged in at some point in the future. And in a market where the company loses money, no less.
I understand why these cute stories get posted here (heck, the next thing we'll see is some loser r0xx0r 'hacker' trying to plaster a Tux poster in a wall of the Microsoft campus and then suing them for "curtailing his freedom of speech"), but this is going a bit to far, no?
Nah.
* lame caps filter
Thought so =)
Dear AC:
If you grow some balls and log in, I'll enlighten you. Otherwise, please kindly FOAD.
I don't know Mr. Longinus. How about you read the rest of my posts in this same thread and you impart some more of your impressive wisdom? Perhaps my "ignorant assumptions" just are not "clicking" for you, hmmm?
Yep, and that's why I was asking about some backing info on why Phoenix did what they did.
But perhaps you can still log into Slashdot and engage in some karma whoring.
Yes, I know that. But is Phoenix Technologies having a fit over a Mozilla project simply because of the name, or because they were planning to embed a browser in the BIOS? The text of the submission apprently makes the link between what the snazzy BIOS can do and the browser itself, but not necessarily with the name "infringement".
Some backing link, information, you know, proof? Or didja just think "Phoenix" and "Phoenix" and somehow it just "clicked"?