I just checked my e-mails and saw that Update #59 had some information about this...although I don't think a lot of what was mentioned here was made clear early on. I guess I had a knee-jerk reaction to that e-mail, and I admit I don't read _every_ update for a variety of reasons. That said, I still don't like the way that e-mail was written...and therefore I still have some reservations regarding the general attitude.
We'll see.
Regarding the tangent, to me it feels like the "America" instead of "United States" argument. It is the misappropriation of a term in both cases. As a sole linux user, the term "PC" becomes a bit impossible to really utilize in any context. I run servers, laptops, workstations, dedicated electronics that all run the same kernel, and a pretty big number of the same underlying tools (which constitutes a large portion of the "OS"). Worse, once you remove yourself from closed systems, it becomes complicated to even define "OS".
Also, the idea that a game that is on mac is easily ported to linux is simply misguided. It can be true that porting to OSX entails a lot of the work needed to port to Linux, but it is not necessarily so.
Last edited by mbf; 20/05/14 02:57 AM.
