Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 08, 2002 04:54 AM
Not to rain on your parade....
But my question is: You HAVE talked/e-mailed the companies and told them that you would be willing to buy these games if they re-did them for Linux? Right?
You see, one of the main drawbacks to getting games (and anything else for that matter) to Linux is the Catch-22 game being played. The game goes like this:
Companies:
We can't make X for Linux because there
isn't enough of a demand for X.
Customers:
We can't use Linux beacase Company A doesn't
make product X for Linux.
One of you has to give in and (the really important part) let the other guy know that you want whatever it is. Neither group can read the other's minds and neither group is letting the other know how they feel. Which is why there are so few things converted over to Linux. If everyone would write to a company (like Adobe for instance) and let them know that you'd pay for Adobe Photoshop (which - let me let you in on a little secret - Adobe already has a Unix version of Photoshop. We use it on SGI machines here at work!), then maybe they'd release a Linux version of it you could buy. But they probably will never do it unless everyone writes to them, agrees to purchase the product, and then follows through!
And that's the other problem. It is all good and well to say "Yeah, I'll buy it!" but if you don't buy it after they've spent the time and money on converting it, then what they see is "Oh yeah! We know those guys. They won't put their money where their mouths are. All they want is for us to make the software and then give it to them for free. Well, we have to eat, pay bills, pay taxes, and everything else just like everyone else. Let's go back to concentrating on Windows. At least then we get paid for our efforts."
And ya know - it might not make you very happy I'm saying this. But it's the truth. If you want companies to convert over to Linux you have to be willing to pay out your hard earned money for their software. And don't go saying "It's too expensive!" I didn't say you had to buy Adobe Photoshop per se. Go for Adobe Photoshop LE (at the $60.00 level) if you can't afford $600.00. Or look at some other company's software (like games) and write them. The thing is - you have to make the committment and stand by that comittment. Otherwise you have no one to blame but yourself for the state of things.
As our safety stuff here at work says: "When you look in the mirror you are looking at the person responsible for your own safety." The same is true for getting companies to write software for Linux.
Learn about Linux
Download Linux
Get Linux help
Re:The only reason I don't stick with Linux
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 08, 2002 04:54 AMBut my question is: You HAVE talked/e-mailed the companies and told them that you would be willing to buy these games if they re-did them for Linux? Right?
You see, one of the main drawbacks to getting games (and anything else for that matter) to Linux is the Catch-22 game being played. The game goes like this:
Companies:
We can't make X for Linux because there
isn't enough of a demand for X.
Customers:
We can't use Linux beacase Company A doesn't
make product X for Linux.
One of you has to give in and (the really important part) let the other guy know that you want whatever it is. Neither group can read the other's minds and neither group is letting the other know how they feel. Which is why there are so few things converted over to Linux. If everyone would write to a company (like Adobe for instance) and let them know that you'd pay for Adobe Photoshop (which - let me let you in on a little secret - Adobe already has a Unix version of Photoshop. We use it on SGI machines here at work!), then maybe they'd release a Linux version of it you could buy. But they probably will never do it unless everyone writes to them, agrees to purchase the product, and then follows through!
And that's the other problem. It is all good and well to say "Yeah, I'll buy it!" but if you don't buy it after they've spent the time and money on converting it, then what they see is "Oh yeah! We know those guys. They won't put their money where their mouths are. All they want is for us to make the software and then give it to them for free. Well, we have to eat, pay bills, pay taxes, and everything else just like everyone else. Let's go back to concentrating on Windows. At least then we get paid for our efforts."
And ya know - it might not make you very happy I'm saying this. But it's the truth. If you want companies to convert over to Linux you have to be willing to pay out your hard earned money for their software. And don't go saying "It's too expensive!" I didn't say you had to buy Adobe Photoshop per se. Go for Adobe Photoshop LE (at the $60.00 level) if you can't afford $600.00. Or look at some other company's software (like games) and write them. The thing is - you have to make the committment and stand by that comittment. Otherwise you have no one to blame but yourself for the state of things.
As our safety stuff here at work says: "When you look in the mirror you are looking at the person responsible for your own safety." The same is true for getting companies to write software for Linux.
#