2006/9/27, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx>:
I don't want to sound rude, but I don't think any developers care about games - that is, unless they are the developers of the game. I'd expect that sort of thing to happen with games the whole time.
On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 12:01 -0500, Fibonacci Prower wrote:
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> 2006/9/27, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:42:56AM -0500, Fibonacci Prower
> wrote:
> > And while they do, what? Stop using their programs and hope
> they'll still
> > care about the Linux community to make a new version?
>
> I guess its like other proprietary software that broke forever
> due to windows
> upgrades and the like. Its part of the nature of proprietary
> software.
>
> Which propietary software as ubiquitous as Flash broke forever due to
> Windows upgrades?
Any of the Electronic Arts Need for Speed games before v4 (for example
NfS III: Porsche Unleashed), only work on Win98 and Win95. They do not
work on Windows 2000 or later. While not ubiquitous, NfS certainly sold
in the millions, if not tens-of-millions, of units. That's no small
number. This problem certainly exists in the Windows world, no matter
how much effort MS puts into backwards compatibility.
I don't want to sound rude, but I don't think any developers care about games - that is, unless they are the developers of the game. I'd expect that sort of thing to happen with games the whole time.
Dan
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>
> Most likely someone will soon reverse engineer skype entirely,
> at which point
> two things will happen, one of which is that skye to standards
> compliant
> gateways will appear, the other regretably is that millions of
> infected
> voice-spam boxes will begin phoning everyone on the planet
> non-stop selling
> viagra.
>
> You not liking Skype is not a reason to remove support for it. It's
> the only way millions of people have to talk with their loved ones
> without the phone bill skyrocketing. And yes, that includes me.
>
>
> Alan
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