I can't understand why do people think that Linux has to run somewhere, beat someone and achieve something. OS GNU/Linux is not a commercial project, and it does not have to be installed on every second box in the world in order to survive. True, more developers we have - well... more development we get, but will people please please please understand that beating the enemy (such as Windows) is not a goal. We're not conquering the market. We're making an OS for ourselves and let others to run it.
Closing availability for certain platforms would not help Open Source. It will not help us to reach our aim, which is, again, creating a free operating system and not converting everyone else from non-free ones. It will only hurt closed systems, but we'll get a reward in that the flow of potential users and developers would decrease.
There's entirely no point in limiting licenses to free OSs only. And yes, it won't be free anymore if you impose limits on it.
I have an idea how to fix them. Let's sue Gracenote and make them add an option to remove the content from CDDB. This way, everyone could take back what they added to CDDB [and maybe more].
Then let'see what happens to CDDB.
We're asking the wrong question here. The correct question would be "When game publishers will start writing native versions?".
Game publishers won't start writing and shipping native Linux versions until the Linux community will be recognised as a market. People out there think that free operating system is free like in "free beer". Some idiots download Mandrake because it's "easy to install" and then come to IRC and whine why doesn't Linux have a printer folder, or why can't they seem to be able to change resolution, et cetera.
Linux community needs to educate both newcomers and people on the second side of the river. It should be made clear that we are willing to pay *reasonable* price for *quality* products (and we do - previous posters do, I do).
It's a question of Linux being publically recognized as a desktop platform (God forgive me) and a gaming platform. When Linux is recognized as one that will be the time to ask a question "What happens with game porting companies when game vendors start shipping native Linux games?".
If Loki and friends have bad feelings about it, might I suggest that they themselves start writing original native Linux games before the Big Dudes wake up and eat their market.
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I can't understand why do people think that Linux has to run somewhere, beat someone and achieve something. OS GNU/Linux is not a commercial project, and it does not have to be installed on every second box in the world in order to survive. True, more developers we have - well... more development we get, but will people please please please understand that beating the enemy (such as Windows) is not a goal. We're not conquering the market. We're making an OS for ourselves and let others to run it.
Closing availability for certain platforms would not help Open Source. It will not help us to reach our aim, which is, again, creating a free operating system and not converting everyone else from non-free ones. It will only hurt closed systems, but we'll get a reward in that the flow of potential users and developers would decrease.
There's entirely no point in limiting licenses to free OSs only. And yes, it won't be free anymore if you impose limits on it.
I have an idea how to fix them. Let's sue Gracenote and make them add an option to remove the content from CDDB. This way, everyone could take back what they added to CDDB [and maybe more]. Then let'see what happens to CDDB.
Crap, forgot closing as usually :}
We're asking the wrong question here. The correct question would be "When game publishers will start writing native versions?". Game publishers won't start writing and shipping native Linux versions until the Linux community will be recognised as a market. People out there think that free operating system is free like in "free beer". Some idiots download Mandrake because it's "easy to install" and then come to IRC and whine why doesn't Linux have a printer folder, or why can't they seem to be able to change resolution, et cetera. Linux community needs to educate both newcomers and people on the second side of the river. It should be made clear that we are willing to pay *reasonable* price for *quality* products (and we do - previous posters do, I do). It's a question of Linux being publically recognized as a desktop platform (God forgive me) and a gaming platform. When Linux is recognized as one that will be the time to ask a question "What happens with game porting companies when game vendors start shipping native Linux games?". If Loki and friends have bad feelings about it, might I suggest that they themselves start writing original native Linux games before the Big Dudes wake up and eat their market.