I meant merely that there should be a license that allows commercial interests to use the code as well without worrying about the GPL. Be that BSD or LGPL as you suggested, I don't think it matters that much.
The motivation for profit is still greater than the motivation for endeavor. Gaming software is no different in this regard.
That said, it would be grand if it were all GPL, but I just don't see that happening.
The profit margin on a game is pretty small if you can ever get one to publish. Add on support and testing due to N combinations of drivers, and games are very labor intensive. Now, throw on N combinations of N programs for N linux distributions, and you have yourself an absolute nightmare. That's why you see console games more quickly - less testing on bad hardware.
Compound on the fact that game players are PHB's in their own right in the sense they can ask for features, features, features, and not demand another cent out of it.
The only way you'll see games on Linux is if someone does the following (and if someone has, we need better marketeers...)
- A somewhat standard architecture (OpenGL springs to mind)... - A standard *BSD* toolkit using that architecture. People should be able to try to make a buck from it. This implies a somewhat standard language (or at least a standard messaging protocol (CORBA)). Candidate would be C++, although it would be nice to see others. - A dedicated group of people to do it with. - Someone comes up with some neat ideas that they would want to work for free on.
For only 2% of the market, you'll rarely see stuff in the stores. Best Buy carries zilch and MicroCenter carries a handful of Linux apps. If 2% of 2% wants to buy a game that only 2% of that target group wants, you'll have a hard time finding 2% of the developers willing to contribute.
That said, it is more possible if Linux picks up market share and attitudes change. In the meantime, we're stuck.
I think the best inventions have come from T. Herman Zwiebel, for his use of immigrants and the steamless steamshovel.
True, maybe not robots in the strictest sense, but definitely ahead of their time.
Off-topic: Can we change Bill Gate's image here to match the boilerplate robot? I would find it less menacing and more approachable. It, too, would be heartless.
Technology zealots? Zealots == terrorists? Come off it. A litter of FUD-sucking trolls on that last article. The last couple paragraphs are barely coherent and have sweeping generalizations (unemployed, fabricating stories...)
Why do we need an executable that sucks money out of me? I want more.
I just want something that sucks my credit card number, PIN, SSN, mother's maiden name, and the biometrics for my colon if I so as much as hover on a hyperlink. That's what I want. I'm patenting it right now before any of you other bastards claim prior art.
I want to be charged for breathing, too, but I haven't figured that out yet.
SCO servers were shut down in an apparent hacking attack via Linux drone computers bypassing security with a hyperbundle of Pringles cans...
News at 11.
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"Stunning!"
"A must see!"
"Less time reading the review to get incited over an article I won't read!"
"Was it bedtime in the eastern United States when this article was submitted? Excellent bed time nocturne!".... slow day, slow day....... and to stay remotely on target, do I really trust Javascript to be more secure? Can we port this to VB script?:-D
Being disorganized can actually leverage that knowledge more effectively than a command-and-control hierarchy.... you would assume we were talking about terrorists.
I can't wait until the GPL is held in that politically charged light.
I imagined more sweat - like with all that rain coming down at the end for Ballmer....
And the innovation pill? I have some explanations... - It's a placebo. - You can only take the pill after reading the EULA that's was in the package. - The package itself is flawed and tampered with because some script kiddie got into it first. - The pill would advertize for other pills, mostly blue and purple.... there is nothing more pathetic that seeing two overly rich CEO's attempt to hip themselves up to pop culture. I'll take my glasses-half-full 401K presentations, my Initech pep rallies, and all that other crap over this. Nice to know that part of the war chest is going towards craptastic special effects and parody instead of, I don't know, hiring some cheap labor to look for buffer overflows.
Two thumbs down. Even Keanu can act better than Gates.
So can we have some competition against Redmond then? If it takes free software to produce some competition (think PBS versus the entire broadcasting spectrum), I think its indicative of other darker factors.
I work on OSS in my spare time, and I don't fit the stereotype... and I don't call every pro-MS a money-scrounging heartless profit-driven capitalist. Just Bill Gates.
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An anti-GPL stab? Hardly.
I meant merely that there should be a license that allows commercial interests to use the code as well without worrying about the GPL. Be that BSD or LGPL as you suggested, I don't think it matters that much.
The motivation for profit is still greater than the motivation for endeavor. Gaming software is no different in this regard.
That said, it would be grand if it were all GPL, but I just don't see that happening.
Which is somewhat ironic...
The profit margin on a game is pretty small if you can ever get one to publish. Add on support and testing due to N combinations of drivers, and games are very labor intensive. Now, throw on N combinations of N programs for N linux distributions, and you have yourself an absolute nightmare. That's why you see console games more quickly - less testing on bad hardware.
Compound on the fact that game players are PHB's in their own right in the sense they can ask for features, features, features, and not demand another cent out of it.
The only way you'll see games on Linux is if someone does the following (and if someone has, we need better marketeers...)
- A somewhat standard architecture (OpenGL springs to mind)...
- A standard *BSD* toolkit using that architecture. People should be able to try to make a buck from it. This implies a somewhat standard language (or at least a standard messaging protocol (CORBA)). Candidate would be C++, although it would be nice to see others.
- A dedicated group of people to do it with.
- Someone comes up with some neat ideas that they would want to work for free on.
For only 2% of the market, you'll rarely see stuff in the stores. Best Buy carries zilch and MicroCenter carries a handful of Linux apps. If 2% of 2% wants to buy a game that only 2% of that target group wants, you'll have a hard time finding 2% of the developers willing to contribute.
That said, it is more possible if Linux picks up market share and attitudes change. In the meantime, we're stuck.
T.
I think the best inventions have come from T. Herman Zwiebel, for his use of immigrants and the steamless steamshovel.
True, maybe not robots in the strictest sense, but definitely ahead of their time.
Off-topic: Can we change Bill Gate's image here to match the boilerplate robot? I would find it less menacing and more approachable. It, too, would be heartless.
George Clinton had nothing to do with the DMCA.
Move along... nothing to see here.
Because managers don't kill pop-ups. Killers kill pop-ups.
And pop-ups are just like you and I. Everyone is a pop-up to someone else.
T.
"I wonder when this bubble is going to burst."
I'm predicting 2004, second quarter.
Of course, I'm a software developer, so I don't know squat.
The 3-Faces....
Technology zealots? Zealots == terrorists? Come off it. A litter of FUD-sucking trolls on that last article. The last couple paragraphs are barely coherent and have sweeping generalizations (unemployed, fabricating stories...)
A new meaning to the term "yellow" journalism.
J.
Why do we need an executable that sucks money out of me? I want more.
I just want something that sucks my credit card number, PIN, SSN, mother's maiden name, and the biometrics for my colon if I so as much as hover on a hyperlink. That's what I want. I'm patenting it right now before any of you other bastards claim prior art.
I want to be charged for breathing, too, but I haven't figured that out yet.
SCO servers were shut down in an apparent hacking attack via Linux drone computers bypassing security with a hyperbundle of Pringles cans...
News at 11.
Javascrypt by michael.
.... slow day, slow day.... ... and to stay remotely on target, do I really trust Javascript to be more secure? Can we port this to VB script? :-D
"Stunning!"
"A must see!"
"Less time reading the review to get incited over an article I won't read!"
"Was it bedtime in the eastern United States when this article was submitted? Excellent bed time nocturne!"
T.
Well, I was carefully selected and screened and build propietary, secure software.
I can't program for shit compared to Linus and Co.
Yahoo is lying out it's butt and I for one would like to see some accountability.
I, for one, would welcome our accountability overloads.
We have a privately funded group called the RIAA to handle such matters.
Thank you for your consideration.
T.
Let's see, 1,100 songs for $3,500 = $3.18 a song, give or take rounding.
Now, if she would have gotten closer to $3,500 a song, it would have been comparable to iTunes.
If you figure a CD can run you almost $20.00, the dollars work out almost in her favor.
But didn't you see the Matrix, where he and Ballmer are in the simulation - so they don't have to follow the rules for the sim.
They have the God mode.
He'll be cryogenically frozen. Then what?
Mayhem!
True, but his advisors might, and I worry about them more.
Being disorganized can actually leverage that knowledge more effectively than a command-and-control hierarchy. ... you would assume we were talking about terrorists.
I can't wait until the GPL is held in that politically charged light.
T.
Seminal vesicular tissue is what I was thinking...
...Am shocked that a corporation would dare do such a thing.
Now, what's the article about again?
I imagined more sweat - like with all that rain coming down at the end for Ballmer....
... there is nothing more pathetic that seeing two overly rich CEO's attempt to hip themselves up to pop culture. I'll take my glasses-half-full 401K presentations, my Initech pep rallies, and all that other crap over this. Nice to know that part of the war chest is going towards craptastic special effects and parody instead of, I don't know, hiring some cheap labor to look for buffer overflows.
And the innovation pill? I have some explanations...
- It's a placebo.
- You can only take the pill after reading the EULA that's was in the package.
- The package itself is flawed and tampered with because some script kiddie got into it first.
- The pill would advertize for other pills, mostly blue and purple.
Two thumbs down. Even Keanu can act better than Gates.
Tacky, yet funny, yet repulsive, yet somewhat on-topic.
I think my brain threw up all over itself.
... Michael Bolton's take on the company in Appendix C.
It's stapled on.
What about the Green party? The Libertarians?
Where's my fair and balanced coverage?
So can we have some competition against Redmond then? If it takes free software to produce some competition (think PBS versus the entire broadcasting spectrum), I think its indicative of other darker factors.
I work on OSS in my spare time, and I don't fit the stereotype... and I don't call every pro-MS a money-scrounging heartless profit-driven capitalist. Just Bill Gates.
Bill and Howard. Yeah... them two.
Uh, then what's it for?
It's not a copy-restriction flag. It's this kind of flag.