-- On June 04, 2002, Eric (Deacon) sent me the following: > Heh, that's always funny. "You're a puss if you don't ignore the best > interests of your business, and instead pour an incredible amount of man > hours into a big hole in the ground: a 4 year old (plus?) engine > designed from the start to run on Windows being rewritten to function on > a server OS that a tiny handful of people have adapted for use as a > desktop OS." Stan, it's just not practical. I don't know where you get > off insinuating that Valve has neither "vision" nor "guts". That makes > me mad, man. You want to kick their dog while you're here? Working > personally with the WineX people is already way beyond the call of duty, > and I'm surprised at your attitude. Overall, Valve has done--and > continues to do--a kickass job in a harsh market. Don't be getting down > on them because they care more about feeding their families than making > a handful of die-hard linux freaks happy...
Let's not forget that the only company to actively port games to Linux went under. I just don't think there's a market for selling games to a tiny fraction of the population who is used to getting everything for free. Linux has been traditionally associated with hackers, and hackers with pirates, which doesn't help matters any. -- Chip Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ GCM/CS d+(-) s+:++ a20>? C++ UB++++$ P+++$ L- E--- W++ N@ o K- w O M+ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t+@ R@ tv@ b++@ DI++++ D+(-) G++ e>++ h>++ r++ y? -- [ Content of type application/pgp-signature deleted ] _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
