hmmm second attempt...I have no idea why the last was cut off....if this doesn't go through well..not worth a 3rd attempt.
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 14:59, joe wrote: > Jef Spaleta wrote: > > >Didn't mandrake try that? Didn't mandrake file for bankrupcy protection? > >Are you asking for Red Hat to file for bankrupcy? > > > I detect some fallacious logic there - Maybe some exaggerated logic...but the point is there buried in the sarcasm. Does it make ANY business sense at all for Red Hat to look at gaming like its something even worth marketing, worth talking about at all, let alone burning valuable development time focusing on? No...and thankfully Red Hat's management team isn't a bunch of FPS obsessed gamers, with an itchy trigger finger..but are instead seem to be pretty savvy business people who really know how to think ahead and guage market potential and have a keen sense of where the technology and the demand stands on all fronts. Mandrake, its gaming release one relavent example, isn't blessed with such management. Or maybe I've got it all wrong. Maybe its not that Red Hat's management is really good and know how to avoid money losing business ideas. Maybe the management team just have an extreme dislike for their userbase, and are actively ignoring the vocal masses of paying linux users screaming for better gaming support at the OS level...and it's just a complete fluke Red Hat is doing as well as they are, despite of their boneheaded decisions not to court the opressed masses of linux gamers, who are crying out for recognition. Maybe Mandrake was on to something by catering to gamers, but have been crushed on the economic bootheel of Red Hat, and their obsessive desire to kill all linux innovation. Now you can whine all you want about how wonderful it would be to live in the ideal world of leisure where high quality games were free and flowed like water down yer fiberoptic internet connection to yer linux desktop...but the business realities Red Hat faces are there any time your ready to acknowledge them. If you aren't, go pipedream on a debian mailinglist about how important a linux gaming platform is in the near term and encourage the all volunteer to get cracking on the needed OS side support issues. > It's so obvious I won't insult the readership by > pointing it out explicitly, but the logic has more > holes than a ton of swiss cheese - Prove me wrong...start yer own for-profit gaming linux distro, base it on Red Hat even to make yer life a little easier at the beginning, and see how quickly you move into the financial red with it. > "what kind of nonsense it this, where every > linux user is expected to buy a windoze pee > cee to do anything interesting or cool?" -jef"thinks it sad that 'anything interesting and cool' appearently boils down to playing mass marketed proprietary games in today's decadent US lifestyle"spaleta
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