----- Original Message ----- From: "John Martinez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kaiwai Gardiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "MC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 2:21 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.
> > On Aug 1, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > >> On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:34 -0700, John Martinez wrote: >>> >>> I thought I read somewhere (can't find the source) that the market >>> for PC games is shrinking and the market for console games is >>> growing >>> (Wii/PS3/Xbox 360). The only exception being MMORPGs like WoW. >>> >>> The state of gaming is sad on the second largest desktop, Mac OS X, >>> so I would suspect that Linux and Solaris would fall way down the >>> list. >>> >>> But I do agree with you, games would definitely attract a different >>> crowd than Solaris is used to, in a positive way. >> >> Apart from a few noisy, cpu over clocking, gpu tweaking, windows >> registry hacking, caffeine addicted gamers - most people don't actually >> care about games. > > One of the guys that invented UNIX did. Ever hear of "Space Travel?" > >> I can assure most people here, when it comes to migration, the questions >> I get asked from people have to do with whether they can get their >> favourite applications on the new operating system - not whether they >> can 'get their game on' (what ever the hell that means). > > It's called "entertainment." And quite a lot of people care about whether > they can play games, play movies, play their CDs (or MP3s), etc. on their > computers. iTunes Music Store and Blizzard both are doing quite well, as > examples. > > The history between gaming and UNIX is real. > > <http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/pdp7.html> Something that *NIX, let alot Solaris isn't doing very well - lack of will of companies concerned one could say. Kinda like the defeatest attitude to Microsoft dominance on the desktop. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
