On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 20:31, Russell McOrmond wrote: > It is my understanding from chatting with them over the years that most > of their money is made in porting for the game companies. When game > companies offer a "linux version", it is often a version compiled with the > emulator libraries. I believe one of their largest clients was Loki. Hard to beleive Sir; I'll have to check up the tech manuals before I agree on this.
> Note to Sumeet Madhukar Moghe (RE: pirating games) > I can't pirate games as I simply don't run proprietary software, under > Linux or any other OS. One of the advantages of FLOSS is that the whole > concept of software "piracy" simply goes away. Copyright infringement (by > a developer or distributor) is still possible, but so-called 'piracy' is > not. Oh!! That note about supporting native ports, by actually buying the game was ONLY for those who enjoy playing games on the Linux platform, regardless of whether or not, the games are FLOSS. Anyway, the three most popular ports for Linux, Q3, UT and RTCW have had their sources released under the GPL, as I already mentioned. > Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> /Sumeet -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Sumeet Madhukar Moghe | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] C/O Mr PK Das, Ghola C Block, | Phone:+ 91 - 33 - 2595 1420 Opposite Checkpost, Sodepur, | + 91 - 33 - 2565 7575 Calcutta 700 110 - INDIA | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Please remain calm, it's no use both of us being hysterical at the same time. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
