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On 30/10/12 16:35, Kai Hendry wrote: > Obviously Valve is kicking up a fuss because M$ is going to > marginalise them on the "desktop". > > How many linux users have a decent graphics card? After all these > years of most GPU innovations ignoring linux? I severely doubt any > game will play well on a Sandy bridge based X220 thinkpad. > > binary blob to play binary blob. > > someone make a decent WebGL game and you might have my attention. ;) > I see a kinda slow solution to this 1. Not enough people are using linux or OSS due to lack of games or rather mainstream games 2. Address this as per this thred and see if we can get people using Linux based distros of some sort, even if they are using closed source game engines, get them on board and we can work on them to work on open source game engines. 3. Among the converted will be developers looking and asking questions, so lets answer those questions by pointing people towards open standards that will work across platforms etc, and devices 4. Help and support the next generation of programmers in their learning of open standards and help test / develop games or whatever is needed (within reason) hopefully we can then have programmers who think as programmers not simply windows game developers but game developers We have an opportunity, we may have to change the way the lug works, we may hopefully end up with lots of younger members keen to learn, lets make sure we at least give them a good argument to use open standards. Paul -- -- http://drupal.zleap.net skype : psutton111 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 http://www.raspberrypi.org http://www.ubuntu.com -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq