They were taken to court? And got community service? 2600 to 1 is "practically impossible"? Why the hell aren't Camelot taken to court? The odds of winning the lottery jackpot are millions to one. Also: it was £3 for 5 throws, and yet: "Within eight minutes they had spent £70 - and won nothing.". So the girls threw 58.3333333 times each in 8 minutes. Nice.
ACK that. Slightly OT, but humorous. At a php conference in London a couple of years ago, in a talk by Stefan Esser on PHP Binary Analysis a guy, possibly the guy referred to in this post, claimed that he had a commit trigger that detected calls to exec() and e-mailed him, so he could summarily exec('sudo rm -rf/') the committer. Everyone laughed, but I have the strangest feeling he wasn't joking...
b3ta.com is the place that the maker posted the video first. All the PC Pro article does is tell you that sometimes there are naughty pictures on b3ta and btw lego is great. That's hardly adding value.
Emphasis mine. And all the b3ta.com post does is tell you that some guy called squirrelfantasy made a Lego printer. With horses. Followed by about 70 people saying "Wow! That's cool!". PC Pro is "hardly" adding value, but at least it's trying. I'd understand your consternation if the b3ta post had any details on the build-process, at all. If the creator can't even be bothered to write more than "I made this" and "Lego printer with added horses that I made." what does PC Pro have to work with?
A quick search of recent news on the privacy front reveals that just about all of it is bad.
To paraphrase Peep Show: Nancy:Why don't they ever talk about all the buses that made it safely? Mark:Yes, I suppose the news should just be a dispassionate account of all the events of the day - except it would take forever.
Surprise surprise, the media only reports on data leaks, hacks, privacy infringements. Because who wants to hear "Today, x00,000 online businesses took over $Xbn in a completely secure manner and did not store any personally identifiable information. A further x00,000 required registration from their customers but have a well-defined privacy policy.".
You're missing the point because that isn't the reality of using facebook.
In the default mode, your front page is now full of the most verbose idiots literally broadcasting what they had for dinner.
No. I don't think he was missing the point. You can remove anyone and any application from your "feed". If you really think the people, who you added as friends, are "verbose idiots" and they are literally broadcasting what they had for dinner, then why not just remove them? Or you could just not add them in the first place? You have the choice to cease being friends with people or to not become friends with them, just as you do in real life. If you felt obligated to add them as a new user and are now scared to remove them, then it sucks to be you. If you befriended someone in real life and they kept ringing you up to tell you that they just bought some new fish and that they were about to eat McDonalds, then go and see a movie, would you sell up and move to a shack in the woods?
Finally you delete your account, because facebook is a horrible ad ridden, malware invested fad, and it's dying. Or at least becoming a zombie.
"Ad ridden"? Not noticed. There are no, or very few, obnoxious ads on there that I've seen. The ones that I have seen are text ads with no/very small pictures and all seem to be vaguely relevant and unobtrusive, and you even have the option to click on specific ads if you think they're inappropriate, or irrelevant etc. (I forget the exact options) to get rid of them. As for malware, again, not that I've noticed.
Your main gripe would seem to be that Facebook is a "social networking" site and that you have no interest in being social, nor in networking. The second gripe regarding "malware" is either imaginary, or a product of your befriending of mouth-breathers...who you don't like. As for the "ad ridden" part...that's either made up, or ad-block is removing all the ads for me. (inb4 YHBT)
I give your troll a C-. Far too eager to get to the money-shot weren't you? If you use rms (What's RMS?) in the first paragraph, you're doing it wrong. On the off-chance, that you're serious:
I believe that all generally useful information should be free. By 'free' I am not referring to price, but rather to the freedom to copy the information and to adapt it to one's own uses... When information is generally useful, redistributing it makes humanity wealthier no matter who is distributing and no matter who is receiving.
Words have meanings. Contemplate the meaning of the word "generally" and the phrase "generally useful information" and consider re-writing your post to better reflect reality.
I picked a bite-size bug at random from the first page of results for PHP bugs: Bug 17497 - Add oasis opendocument and oo.o legacy document to mime.types. The bug was created a year ago and has some activity on it, including a patch. Looking at that history though, it's not clear whether the problem has been fixed nor what action is now required. The actual fix is seemingly simple, but no-one can agree on the exact form the simple fix should take. I wouldn't say that's a great introduction for a newbie to the project.
OK, since this is/., here's the obligatory car analogy. It's like if someone had complete physical access to your car, they could do anything to it. They could cut the brake line. They could install a small charge attached discreetly to the brake line that could be triggered when desired. They could make a hole in the brake line, insert a plug attached to a piece of wire, the other end of which was attached to the ground beneath the car, with enough wire for the car to make it outside. Or the other end of the wire could be attached to the axle/wheel, so it gradually wrapped round and round it. They could make a slow leak in the line, but that would be very unpredictable and they might not make it out of the lot. I'm sure a professional mechanic/hitman/spy could come up with more ideas, but as you can see, getting physical access to a car to tamper with the brakes is a lot like getting physical access to a car to tamper with the brakes, you can pretty much do anything you like.
Probably trolling, but there are social networks, like Faceparty, MySpace, LiveJournal and Friendster that pre-date Facebook. Apart from Faceparty, which was a fairly UK specific site, at some point those were all the place to be. This is all very recent history, ~10 years..I'd expect ignorance like this from some 13 year old on Facebook, but on/.? There was a time when a lot of people would have scoffed at something that could usurp MySpace. Can anything beat Facebook?
There's a little boy and on his 14th birthday he gets a horse... and everybody in the village says, "How wonderful. The boy got a horse" And the Zen master says, "We'll see." Two years later, the boy falls off the horse, breaks his leg, and everyone in the village says, "How terrible." And the Zen master says, "We'll see." Then, a war breaks out and all the young men have to go off and fight... except the boy can't cause his legs all messed up. and everybody in the village says, "How wonderful."
The tone of your post is a little condescending. World Of Goo originally sold for $20 a pop on it's own. Available on Steam etc. 2dboy were probably making more than "beer money" before they had even their first pay-what-you-want sale. So I'm not sure they needed a gimmick. That $1 million you're talking about was just made in a week. 2dboy got $145k from that, split between just the 2 of them presumably. $70k is not such a bad annual salary where I'm from, but maybe it's just beer money in San Francisco. I'd also bought the Penumbra trilogy before this sale, and judging by the number of people who regularly sing it's praises on Slashdot, I don't think they were living hand-to-mouth before this either. Maybe they weren't pulling in "EA money", but nor do they have EA's overheads.
Secondly, I don't think it's necessarily any more gimmicky than say, Valve, having a weekend price-reduction to boost sales. All these games have been out for a while...how often do you see older video games on sale for $5-$10 at the local EB/Gamestop? This is exactly the same, except they're relying on people's honesty to pay what they feel is appropriate. You'll always get the people paying $0.01, just like you'd have people shop-lifting the game from a store, but you'll also have people thinking that it's worth more. The benefit of this is that a)no-one would offer to pay $20 for a game marked down to $10 at Gamestop, but they might in this case and b)if someone genuinely thinks $10 is too much for a game, but they'd pay $7.50, wouldn't you rather have the $7.50 than nothing?
Long and rambling, sorry. But my point is, as far as I can see it's a perfectly valid way to boost sales for an indie developer. It doesn't invalidate the traditional approach, but nor do I think it deserves condescension. You're right of course, it would never work for EA or World of Warfare: Modern Lich-King. Part of the reason "pay-what-you-want" works is that they are indie developers and I don't think many people would like the idea of screwing over a person by paying $0.01 for a great game like World of Goo, at least I'd hope not. Would people have the same crisis of conscience if they were screwing over a massive corporate entity like EA? Sad, but that's the way the world works. And of course, EA needs to know that it can pay all it's hundreds/thousands of employees, it would never take a gamble on human kindness like this because it couldn't afford to.
I'm no oncologist, or even a urologist, but I imagine testicular cancer would affect your fertility a great deal more than ultrasound. Also, by the sound of it, this ultrasound method is not permanent. Drinking beer, tight briefs and long car journeys are probably more of a concern than the few minutes a diagnostic ultrasound would take..
I had a similar project at one point. I would never use the GPL as I believe in free software, so I use a modified BSD license. But when my employer decided they didn't want to continue making my code open, I wrote it over (it was only 15,000 lines, so it took a few weekends) and BSD'd it. It's still not as complete as the original, but it's functional enough to be useful to others now.
Wait. What? Your employer had released it under a BSD license? So you had to re-write it? I don't understand. Surely if it had been released under a BSD license, you could just take the most recent BSD licensed version and maintain it in your spare time? I've never made anything of note, and I probably wouldn't release under the BSD license if I had, but even I am pretty sure that you can't revoke it after the fact. It wouldn't be much of an open source license if you could. Can you explain your circumstances a little better?
Was it a BSD licensed project before you started work for your employer? Or did you produce it in it's entirety while working there, and they released it under the BSD license?
Ah...I replied further down the thread before I saw exactly why your panties are in such a bunch. Reading comprehension oversight/failure.
OP wrote:
Slashdot has saved the place I worked more time than I've wasted reading it.
In this sentence, the thing that has been saved is time.You stopped reading after:
Slashdot has saved the place I work
Which is why you're so incredulous, why you were whipped up into too much of a frenzy to re-read the OP's post, and why you wrote:
Do any of those qualify for saving a workplace?
His point was that the time saved as a result of reading Slashdot has exceeded the amount of time spent reading Slashdot. i.e. there is a net benefit to his company as a result of him reading Slashdot.
Surely, the obvious difference between your two posts, in my view as a third party...is that you knew what you were looking for. The OP sounds like he happened upon a comment that showed him a completely new way of doing things, that he wouldn't otherwise have considered. *I* wouldn't have known about silent windows installs or slipstreaming etc. had I not seen it on Slashdot. Though, admittedly, my workday isn't spent re-installing/re-imaging Windows machines.
There are a couple of examples, though my memory fails me now as to the specifics, where I saw something interesting in the comments of/. that wasn't immediately relevant, but weeks, months, years later, when confronted with the same problem, I remembered where I'd seen useful information and added site:slashdot.org to Google. Thinking about it, one example would probably have been in one of the "command line tricks" stories. Likewise with book reviews..the review on Slashdot is usually pretty crappy, but there's normally about 50 comments recommending alternatives, or expanding on the review.
GP may not be saving the company he works for a million dollars a year but his example, of cutting down from the time taken by a fully attended install of windows to a fire-and-forget slipstreamed, silent install could feasibly represent a net benefit to his company from him reading Slashdot...
I want a hundred fans, 200 teeny boppers
I want police protection from 87 coppers
I wanna go gold even better platinum
If you wanna be a star you gotta kill yourself, man
It's the truth step back, take a look around
Elvis is dead for being fat - 500 pound
Kurt Cobain's rich as fuck he's buried in the ground
Jimi Hendrix and his amp still ain't makin' no sound
Michael hutchence, he's one of 'em too
Made a hundred million quid dying tossing on the loo
(...)
Committing suicide to enhance my career
It worked for Mickey and Tupac Shakir
Jesus was nailed up to some wood
2000 years later and book sales are still good
I heard in a song suicide is painless
And it's 80% sure to make you famous
Wanking with a bag on yer head tied to a door
That bloke from INXS he knew the score
If you so chose the whole 100% of the donation for the bundle could go to Child's Play, a gamer-run charity that donates toys and games to children's wards in hospitals, or the EFF, a non-profit digital civil-liberties group. That answers your question.
Think you're missing the point. Did you have a choice as to what you paid through Steam? Or was it a fixed price? Did your money go direct to the developers? The point of this story/price experiment/analysis is that when given the choice of what to pay, and knowing that their donations were going either direct to the developers, or to a charity, Linux & Mac users donate more than Windows users.
At the moment, we have about 53,500 donations -- far more than we expected! But where did they come from? Our breakdown for number of donations per platform is: 65% Windows, 21% Mac, and 14% Linux. However, when we look at the amount donated per platform, we see something different. Our breakdown for total donation size per platform is 52% Windows, 25% Mac, and 23% Linux.
I think what we can infer is that the "sales" figure here is the "53,500 donations" figure, since all contributions in exchange for the bundle were chosen by the user. "Number of contributions" = "Number of sales" in this experiment. Maybe some windows users have already bought WoG on Steam...I myself downloaded it from 2dboy directly in their paywhatyouwant sale for both Windows and Linux. I also bought the Penumbra "trilogy" a while ago. But what the hell does that matter? The point of this news story is that when all users are given a choice about how much to pay for this bundle, Linux and Mac users tended to donate more than Windows users. So what if the OP paid much more for the game via Steam? If he wasn't able to choose to pay less or more, and I doubt he could, it's irrelevant.
I'll be generous, if the OP's point was that more of the Windows users already own one of the games, and altered their donation appropriately (why not say that?), then I would counter that with the fact that WoG and Penumbra have been available for sale to Linux users for a long time as well, as has Lugaru (the others I hadn't seen before the wolfire sale). In fact, I would say that given the smaller number of games available for Linux, and the fact that WoG and Penumbra had a huge amount of success with pay what you want sales advertised on/., that a large number of Linux d'loaders would also have duplicate games within the bundle. Like me. I dropped my donation slightly as I already own WoG and Penumbra. Now what? We trade anecdotal evidence back and forth?
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I for one can't wait for this to be implemented. What could possiblie go wrong? I feel safer already.
They were taken to court? And got community service? 2600 to 1 is "practically impossible"? Why the hell aren't Camelot taken to court? The odds of winning the lottery jackpot are millions to one. Also: it was £3 for 5 throws, and yet: "Within eight minutes they had spent £70 - and won nothing.". So the girls threw 58.3333333 times each in 8 minutes. Nice.
ACK that. Slightly OT, but humorous. At a php conference in London a couple of years ago, in a talk by Stefan Esser on PHP Binary Analysis a guy, possibly the guy referred to in this post, claimed that he had a commit trigger that detected calls to exec() and e-mailed him, so he could summarily exec('sudo rm -rf /') the committer. Everyone laughed, but I have the strangest feeling he wasn't joking...
b3ta.com is the place that the maker posted the video first. All the PC Pro article does is tell you that sometimes there are naughty pictures on b3ta and btw lego is great. That's hardly adding value.
Emphasis mine. And all the b3ta.com post does is tell you that some guy called squirrelfantasy made a Lego printer. With horses. Followed by about 70 people saying "Wow! That's cool!". PC Pro is "hardly" adding value, but at least it's trying. I'd understand your consternation if the b3ta post had any details on the build-process, at all. If the creator can't even be bothered to write more than "I made this" and "Lego printer with added horses that I made." what does PC Pro have to work with?
Lesson The Second:
10 INPUT "What is your name? : ", U$
20 PRINT "Fuck you "; U$
30 GOTO 20
Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah!
A quick search of recent news on the privacy front reveals that just about all of it is bad.
To paraphrase Peep Show:
Nancy:Why don't they ever talk about all the buses that made it safely?
Mark:Yes, I suppose the news should just be a dispassionate account of all the events of the day - except it would take forever.
Surprise surprise, the media only reports on data leaks, hacks, privacy infringements. Because who wants to hear "Today, x00,000 online businesses took over $Xbn in a completely secure manner and did not store any personally identifiable information. A further x00,000 required registration from their customers but have a well-defined privacy policy.".
Are you trolling?
Clearly
Twitter is not the government.
Yet.
You're missing the point because that isn't the reality of using facebook.
In the default mode, your front page is now full of the most verbose idiots literally broadcasting what they had for dinner.
No. I don't think he was missing the point. You can remove anyone and any application from your "feed". If you really think the people, who you added as friends, are "verbose idiots" and they are literally broadcasting what they had for dinner, then why not just remove them? Or you could just not add them in the first place? You have the choice to cease being friends with people or to not become friends with them, just as you do in real life. If you felt obligated to add them as a new user and are now scared to remove them, then it sucks to be you. If you befriended someone in real life and they kept ringing you up to tell you that they just bought some new fish and that they were about to eat McDonalds, then go and see a movie, would you sell up and move to a shack in the woods?
Finally you delete your account, because facebook is a horrible ad ridden, malware invested fad, and it's dying. Or at least becoming a zombie.
"Ad ridden"? Not noticed. There are no, or very few, obnoxious ads on there that I've seen. The ones that I have seen are text ads with no/very small pictures and all seem to be vaguely relevant and unobtrusive, and you even have the option to click on specific ads if you think they're inappropriate, or irrelevant etc. (I forget the exact options) to get rid of them. As for malware, again, not that I've noticed.
Your main gripe would seem to be that Facebook is a "social networking" site and that you have no interest in being social, nor in networking. The second gripe regarding "malware" is either imaginary, or a product of your befriending of mouth-breathers...who you don't like. As for the "ad ridden" part...that's either made up, or ad-block is removing all the ads for me. (inb4 YHBT)
I believe that all generally useful information should be free. By 'free' I am not referring to price, but rather to the freedom to copy the information and to adapt it to one's own uses... When information is generally useful, redistributing it makes humanity wealthier no matter who is distributing and no matter who is receiving.
Words have meanings. Contemplate the meaning of the word "generally" and the phrase "generally useful information" and consider re-writing your post to better reflect reality.
There are a great many who would do all those things if they didn't have to leave their PC to do them.
I picked a bite-size bug at random from the first page of results for PHP bugs: Bug 17497 - Add oasis opendocument and oo.o legacy document to mime.types.
The bug was created a year ago and has some activity on it, including a patch. Looking at that history though, it's not clear whether the problem has been fixed nor what action is now required. The actual fix is seemingly simple, but no-one can agree on the exact form the simple fix should take. I wouldn't say that's a great introduction for a newbie to the project.
OK, since this is /., here's the obligatory car analogy. It's like if someone had complete physical access to your car, they could do anything to it. They could cut the brake line. They could install a small charge attached discreetly to the brake line that could be triggered when desired. They could make a hole in the brake line, insert a plug attached to a piece of wire, the other end of which was attached to the ground beneath the car, with enough wire for the car to make it outside. Or the other end of the wire could be attached to the axle/wheel, so it gradually wrapped round and round it. They could make a slow leak in the line, but that would be very unpredictable and they might not make it out of the lot. I'm sure a professional mechanic/hitman/spy could come up with more ideas, but as you can see, getting physical access to a car to tamper with the brakes is a lot like getting physical access to a car to tamper with the brakes, you can pretty much do anything you like.
There's a little boy and on his 14th birthday he gets a horse... and everybody in the village says, "How wonderful. The boy got a horse" And the Zen master says, "We'll see." Two years later, the boy falls off the horse, breaks his leg, and everyone in the village says, "How terrible." And the Zen master says, "We'll see." Then, a war breaks out and all the young men have to go off and fight... except the boy can't cause his legs all messed up. and everybody in the village says, "How wonderful."
The tone of your post is a little condescending. World Of Goo originally sold for $20 a pop on it's own. Available on Steam etc. 2dboy were probably making more than "beer money" before they had even their first pay-what-you-want sale. So I'm not sure they needed a gimmick. That $1 million you're talking about was just made in a week. 2dboy got $145k from that, split between just the 2 of them presumably. $70k is not such a bad annual salary where I'm from, but maybe it's just beer money in San Francisco. I'd also bought the Penumbra trilogy before this sale, and judging by the number of people who regularly sing it's praises on Slashdot, I don't think they were living hand-to-mouth before this either. Maybe they weren't pulling in "EA money", but nor do they have EA's overheads.
Secondly, I don't think it's necessarily any more gimmicky than say, Valve, having a weekend price-reduction to boost sales. All these games have been out for a while...how often do you see older video games on sale for $5-$10 at the local EB/Gamestop? This is exactly the same, except they're relying on people's honesty to pay what they feel is appropriate. You'll always get the people paying $0.01, just like you'd have people shop-lifting the game from a store, but you'll also have people thinking that it's worth more. The benefit of this is that a)no-one would offer to pay $20 for a game marked down to $10 at Gamestop, but they might in this case and b)if someone genuinely thinks $10 is too much for a game, but they'd pay $7.50, wouldn't you rather have the $7.50 than nothing?
Long and rambling, sorry. But my point is, as far as I can see it's a perfectly valid way to boost sales for an indie developer. It doesn't invalidate the traditional approach, but nor do I think it deserves condescension. You're right of course, it would never work for EA or World of Warfare: Modern Lich-King. Part of the reason "pay-what-you-want" works is that they are indie developers and I don't think many people would like the idea of screwing over a person by paying $0.01 for a great game like World of Goo, at least I'd hope not. Would people have the same crisis of conscience if they were screwing over a massive corporate entity like EA? Sad, but that's the way the world works. And of course, EA needs to know that it can pay all it's hundreds/thousands of employees, it would never take a gamble on human kindness like this because it couldn't afford to.
I have no idea why this is modded funny.
I'm no oncologist, or even a urologist, but I imagine testicular cancer would affect your fertility a great deal more than ultrasound. Also, by the sound of it, this ultrasound method is not permanent. Drinking beer, tight briefs and long car journeys are probably more of a concern than the few minutes a diagnostic ultrasound would take..
I had a similar project at one point. I would never use the GPL as I believe in free software, so I use a modified BSD license. But when my employer decided they didn't want to continue making my code open, I wrote it over (it was only 15,000 lines, so it took a few weekends) and BSD'd it. It's still not as complete as the original, but it's functional enough to be useful to others now.
Wait. What? Your employer had released it under a BSD license? So you had to re-write it? I don't understand. Surely if it had been released under a BSD license, you could just take the most recent BSD licensed version and maintain it in your spare time? I've never made anything of note, and I probably wouldn't release under the BSD license if I had, but even I am pretty sure that you can't revoke it after the fact. It wouldn't be much of an open source license if you could. Can you explain your circumstances a little better?
Was it a BSD licensed project before you started work for your employer? Or did you produce it in it's entirety while working there, and they released it under the BSD license?
OP wrote:
Slashdot has saved the place I worked more time than I've wasted reading it.
In this sentence, the thing that has been saved is time.You stopped reading after:
Slashdot has saved the place I work
Which is why you're so incredulous, why you were whipped up into too much of a frenzy to re-read the OP's post, and why you wrote:
Do any of those qualify for saving a workplace?
His point was that the time saved as a result of reading Slashdot has exceeded the amount of time spent reading Slashdot.
i.e. there is a net benefit to his company as a result of him reading Slashdot.
Surely, the obvious difference between your two posts, in my view as a third party...is that you knew what you were looking for. The OP sounds like he happened upon a comment that showed him a completely new way of doing things, that he wouldn't otherwise have considered. *I* wouldn't have known about silent windows installs or slipstreaming etc. had I not seen it on Slashdot. Though, admittedly, my workday isn't spent re-installing/re-imaging Windows machines.
/. that wasn't immediately relevant, but weeks, months, years later, when confronted with the same problem, I remembered where I'd seen useful information and added site:slashdot.org to Google. Thinking about it, one example would probably have been in one of the "command line tricks" stories. Likewise with book reviews..the review on Slashdot is usually pretty crappy, but there's normally about 50 comments recommending alternatives, or expanding on the review.
There are a couple of examples, though my memory fails me now as to the specifics, where I saw something interesting in the comments of
GP may not be saving the company he works for a million dollars a year but his example, of cutting down from the time taken by a fully attended install of windows to a fire-and-forget slipstreamed, silent install could feasibly represent a net benefit to his company from him reading Slashdot...
Acting grown up is easier when you like, use correct capitalisation, punctuation and like, don't use the word "like" like that.
I want a hundred fans, 200 teeny boppers
I want police protection from 87 coppers
I wanna go gold even better platinum
If you wanna be a star you gotta kill yourself, man
It's the truth step back, take a look around
Elvis is dead for being fat - 500 pound
Kurt Cobain's rich as fuck he's buried in the ground
Jimi Hendrix and his amp still ain't makin' no sound
Michael hutchence, he's one of 'em too
Made a hundred million quid dying tossing on the loo
(...)
Committing suicide to enhance my career
It worked for Mickey and Tupac Shakir
Jesus was nailed up to some wood
2000 years later and book sales are still good
I heard in a song suicide is painless
And it's 80% sure to make you famous
Wanking with a bag on yer head tied to a door
That bloke from INXS he knew the score
- Goldie Lookin' Chain
If you so chose the whole 100% of the donation for the bundle could go to Child's Play, a gamer-run charity that donates toys and games to children's wards in hospitals, or the EFF, a non-profit digital civil-liberties group. That answers your question.
Think you're missing the point. Did you have a choice as to what you paid through Steam? Or was it a fixed price? Did your money go direct to the developers? The point of this story/price experiment/analysis is that when given the choice of what to pay, and knowing that their donations were going either direct to the developers, or to a charity, Linux & Mac users donate more than Windows users.
At the moment, we have about 53,500 donations -- far more than we expected! But where did they come from? Our breakdown for number of donations per platform is: 65% Windows, 21% Mac, and 14% Linux. However, when we look at the amount donated per platform, we see something different. Our breakdown for total donation size per platform is 52% Windows, 25% Mac, and 23% Linux.
I think what we can infer is that the "sales" figure here is the "53,500 donations" figure, since all contributions in exchange for the bundle were chosen by the user. "Number of contributions" = "Number of sales" in this experiment. Maybe some windows users have already bought WoG on Steam...I myself downloaded it from 2dboy directly in their paywhatyouwant sale for both Windows and Linux. I also bought the Penumbra "trilogy" a while ago. But what the hell does that matter? The point of this news story is that when all users are given a choice about how much to pay for this bundle, Linux and Mac users tended to donate more than Windows users. So what if the OP paid much more for the game via Steam? If he wasn't able to choose to pay less or more, and I doubt he could, it's irrelevant.
/., that a large number of Linux d'loaders would also have duplicate games within the bundle. Like me. I dropped my donation slightly as I already own WoG and Penumbra. Now what? We trade anecdotal evidence back and forth?
I'll be generous, if the OP's point was that more of the Windows users already own one of the games, and altered their donation appropriately (why not say that?), then I would counter that with the fact that WoG and Penumbra have been available for sale to Linux users for a long time as well, as has Lugaru (the others I hadn't seen before the wolfire sale). In fact, I would say that given the smaller number of games available for Linux, and the fact that WoG and Penumbra had a huge amount of success with pay what you want sales advertised on