D. Olson wrote: > > >So... Companies are starting to support us. Now we need to support them. > >Now, I totally DISAGREE with the whole "Linux users are stingy bastards" >point you and that software developer make. > Well, I didn't say that _all_ Linux users were stingy, but that is the reputation we have, and I think there is something in it. Actually, where I live it doesn't really apply, because pirated software is the rule - when I point out to people that, for example, you can get OpenOffice (Win or Lin) with a $3 computer magazine, they say "But that's the same as I'd pay for MS Office."
> > >I bought approximately 90 to 100 games during 2001, and if there were Linux >games in that great a number, I would be buying them in quantities like that >now. > I wish I had your salary. 100 games at $50 a piece is $5000. That would be a third of my net income. >Anyhow, I would GRATEFULLY pay $50 for games that run on Linux. > Actually, I nearly did it once on principle, but then Loki went bust (and it's a serious principle here - $50 is ten bottles of raki). > > >I think that this is a wussy approach and is a programmer's only way out now >- before it was that Linux wasn't a major player, now it's that we're all too >cheap... I can't believe that you would stand for that kind of trash >talk!!!?!?! > Well, the programmer involved was working for a university with a tight budget (the program was Hot Potatoes, BTW). They were happy to support Windows development because it would reach a lot of people, and Mac development because that it what they used most, but the attitude was, "If Linux users want it, they can pay us to develop it - but they won't." The actual program was free (as in beer, but not as in speech). > > >I wrote BioWare and told them that if they DON'T put the Linux version onto >shelves that I won't be buying it. They assured me that it would be... And in >the same box as the Windows AND MAC versions! > >NOW THAT'S HOW IT OUGHT TO BE. > >I am paying $80 for this game as soon as it comes out. Thanks for recognising >us, BioWare!!!!!!! I love you! > Good on you! Sir Robin
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