Sad that IE has the monopoly in the browser market. Most users are unaware of the better browsers available. Even if they were aware, many wouldn't change because their IE was "good enough".
MS knows their monopoly will remain as long as they update IE once in a while. What are clearly better web browsers don't get used. Web authors will continue to make pages aimed at a substandard product.
My point here is, does a case of a monopoly stifling innovation and progress get any more clear than this? What now, after MS got away with a slap on the wrist? In the medium to short term, where does the competition go?
> Sure! Just don't forget to read the gazillion-page EULA very carefully;-)
Interestingly, Interix -- an important part of their SFU contains a lot of GPL'd code including gcc, gdb etc. Interesing especially when you consider that they still call the GPL an "IPR Impairing" license.
In any case, microsoft will slowly continue to embrace unix. Now they are strongly acknowleging it's precence. In any case Windows is slowly becoming more and more like any *nix system.
The Free Software Foundation, Red Hat and other GPL advocates take the contrary position. The FSF and Red Hat believe that the progress of science is best advanced by eliminating the profit motive from software development and insuring free, unrestricted public access to software innovations
So he claims that busineses like Red Hat are anti profit? Compare this and this.
Personally i think that id has postponed the release after seeing HL2. Nevertheless, everything seems to indicate that the Doom 3 engine will be better than the HL2 engine, at least in terms of graphics.
id hasn't done anything other than make good engines for a while. Unreal Tournament (arguably) had better gameplay and bot AI than Quake 3. Quake 3 as a game had a better engine but little else. It was other games (MOHAA, return to castle wolfenstien etc) that really used that the Q3 engine to its full potential. IMO, id will continue to make the best looking engines for the forseable future.
This Doom 3 release delay is simply id trying to get some decent gameplay, ai, physics etc into their game. id won't be to worried about HL2's graphics. Besides they were in a similar situation when the Q3 engine received competition from the UT engine. id's only hope in the future is to create good gameplay while maintaining their lead in graphics.
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Sad that IE has the monopoly in the browser market. Most users are unaware of the better browsers available. Even if they were aware, many wouldn't change because their IE was "good enough".
MS knows their monopoly will remain as long as they update IE once in a while. What are clearly better web browsers don't get used. Web authors will continue to make pages aimed at a substandard product.
My point here is, does a case of a monopoly stifling innovation and progress get any more clear than this? What now, after MS got away with a slap on the wrist? In the medium to short term, where does the competition go?
Just my thoughts.
> Sure! Just don't forget to read the gazillion-page EULA very carefully ;-)
Interestingly, Interix -- an important part of their SFU contains a lot of GPL'd code including gcc, gdb etc. Interesing especially when you consider that they still call the GPL an "IPR Impairing" license.
In any case, microsoft will slowly continue to embrace unix. Now they are strongly acknowleging it's precence. In any case Windows is slowly becoming more and more like any *nix system.
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So he claims that busineses like Red Hat are anti profit? Compare this and this.
Personally i think that id has postponed the release after seeing HL2. Nevertheless, everything seems to indicate that the Doom 3 engine will be better than the HL2 engine, at least in terms of graphics.
id hasn't done anything other than make good engines for a while. Unreal Tournament (arguably) had better gameplay and bot AI than Quake 3. Quake 3 as a game had a better engine but little else. It was other games (MOHAA, return to castle wolfenstien etc) that really used that the Q3 engine to its full potential. IMO, id will continue to make the best looking engines for the forseable future.
This Doom 3 release delay is simply id trying to get some decent gameplay, ai, physics etc into their game. id won't be to worried about HL2's graphics. Besides they were in a similar situation when the Q3 engine received competition from the UT engine. id's only hope in the future is to create good gameplay while maintaining their lead in graphics.