And one of their platforms is indeed Linux. It's a work-in-progress effort, though.
Rob >________________________________ > From: Rob Echlin <r...@echlin.ca> >To: OCLUG- Lists <linux@lists.oclug.on.ca> >Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 10:22:33 AM >Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] Building Windows Games with Unity > >When I read the newsletter from Microsoft I was Shocked!, I say Shocked! when >I saw they were promoting a product called Unity and that people could migrate >their Unity apps to Windows 8! > >Microsoft has often re-used names from other places, like XP = eXtreme >Programming, for their own purposes, and I don't like it, >but this is not an example of that. > >Unity is a company producing a game development environment for Windows and >apparently for 9 other publishing platforms. > >They have been around since about 2006, with blogs since 2007. >You can't copyright a single dictionary word, but AFAICT (IANAL) you can >trademark it within a narrow product range. >So Canonical came second (or more). > >Now, if only you could publish to Unity from Unity, while running Unity on >Unity or even on Gnome or LXDE, that would be cool. >Although not $1500 worth of cool. <g> > >Rob > > > >-- >Rob Echlin, B. Eng. >613-266-8311 - Ottawa, ON >http://talksoftware.wordpress.com - http://picasaweb.google.com/coderoller >_______________________________________________ >Linux mailing list >Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca >http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > > > _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
