--- "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are definitely some game companies out there > who are poking > at Linux with a stick to see if it moves. How much > money they > are returned for there efforts is anyone's guess, > but I doubt > they are even seeing a return on their engineering > and time > resources expended.
Which is why I try to buy native linux games like Q3A or RTCW whenever possible. The more support we show these game companies the more likely they will support Linux in the future. > > I think many of these companies do so simply because > they think > Linux is cool, and use it themselves internally for > various > things, so they don't see it as a loss to port their > game to > Linux. Other games get ported to Linux via a third > party who > wants to roll-the-dice and try to see if they can > make money > doing so. Some of them have failed (ie: Loki), > while others are > still going at it. > > I honestly hope these companies succeed with their > games on > Linux, as it just helps make Linux one step closer > to being a > mainstream desktop OS. I agree! > With Linux being a free OS download, I don't see how > any Linux OS > vendor can realize any profit from trying to "sell" > Linux for > video game usage. In the Red Hat case for > example... if a > large number of games were available for Linux like > they are for > Windows.. would gamer people purchase a boxed set > of > "Red Hat Gamer Linux GS" at Walmart, and then > purchase a > subscription to "Red Hat Gamer Network"? <grin> How about Red Hat Linux Gaming Edition? I like the sound of that. :) > > Anyhow... enough of my rambling.. > Mike, please feel free to ramble any time. Thanks for all the interesting comments. Cheers, Charles P.S. As a native North Carolinian living in Raleigh, who has just watched his alma mater, Wake Forest, win its opening game in this year's ACC Tournament, may I suggest the name for the next beta: Howard (as in Josh, star player?) :) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
