Bentula
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Posted - 2007.04.17 09:01:00 -
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Edited by: Bentula on 17/04/2007 08:59:22
 Originally by: noggerman
\o/ another linux is the saviour of the universe.
To all the Microsoft haters out there who whine about how Microsoft have an unlawful monopoly consider this :-
The PC was developed by IBM and was a closed system to which they licensed an operating system from an unknown at the time software vendor - Microsoft
Along come the Chinese who backwards engineer the BIOS of the IBM pc - Call it 1980's DRM - and develop the "compatible" - hence the term "IBM PC or compatible"
So in short - if it hadn't of been for some clever chinese bloke the PC would be just like an Apple Mac - a closed system - a box on a shelf
The PC was always designed to be "a monopoly"
Another small point - Most of the DRM in exsistence today is pushed on us by the music and film industry - I imagine a great deal of you guys use iTunes without a second thought. All the nextgen DVD formats have DRM that reduces the quality of the video output if the recieving device is not HDCP compliant - which btw is not anything to do with Microsoft
Opengl - does it support soundcards like DX ? or input devices ? or networking ? maybe thats where all the other "guff" is that takes up OMG 10mb of space......
CCP are supporting Wine/Cedega - I highly doubt that they will write an entire new client for the 1% of the Eve base who use Linux
Next people will want an OS/2 Warp client, oh how about one for Be OS ...........
K thx bye
Ok I dont exactly know why you think your on topic but you got it about as wrong as you can.
Firstly, a unlawful monoploy is only such if a court says it. Are you a court? No? Didnt think so.
Secondly, you can have a monopoly on hardware alright, thats called a patent. Besides the pc in the 80s hardly dominated the market, you know there was stuff like commodore, atari, apple. On another note, what made it such a success was that you exactly DID NOT need a license from IBM to built it.
Thirdly, the apple isnt a closed box. Neither the software nor the hardware as such. Large parts of the system are even pretty open, which isnt such a big surprise considering that its nowadays based on BSD.
Fourthly, if the PC was designed to be a monopoly, why was everyone allowed to built one with custom parts? Why where there never any patent conflicts like what would happen if you tried building a apple and sell it as a apple compatible?
Fifthly, i highly doubt ccp will base their decisions on your made up statistics. CCP didnt have a problem developing a game that is only attractive to 1% of the mmorpg market.
Just go on and belittle the linux users, at least i will be able to play the new games WITHOUT having to pay for a crap OS. You know with all the greatness that is windows there seems hardly a problem running most of the major mmmorpgs on other systems too. If even WoW runs on linux, why shouldnt eve?
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