Down with Linux
I love this shit… always been a Windows fan, or rather a feature-complete OS fan…
As reported by WinInfo Daily UPDATE @ win2000mag.net
* AND SPEAKING OF OPEN SOURCE NOT CUTTING IT…
I don’t say this very often, but I told you so. In the face of a $290
million quarterly loss, VA Linux–a white-box, mom-and-pop PC maker that
rode the Linux wave all over Wall Street a few years ago–will change
its approach and start to sell–gasp!–closed-source software. I guess
those publicly traded companies have to actually make money.
* QUAKE DEVELOPER RIPS INTO LINUX, MAC OS
His company sells products for Windows, Linux, and the Macintosh
(Mac) OS, so id lead developer John Carmack knows his stuff. And what
does Carmack have to say about the viability of Windows competitors Mac
OS and Linux? “It has been pretty clearly demonstrated that the Mac
market is barely viable and [that] the Linux market is not viable for
game developers to pursue,” Carmack recently wrote. “Linux ports will be
done out of good will, not profit motives. From an economic standpoint,
[developers aren't] making a bad call if they ignore the existence of
all platforms but Windows.” In response to how well Linux games have
sold, Carmack made some grim comments about the open-source solution.
“[The sales from] all Linux games ever sold [combined] don’t add up to
[the sales generated by] one medium-selling Windows title,” he said.
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