[mdlug] Job posting for game porting to Linux

[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: Robert Adkins

> 	If MS continues to push Vista and its annoying bits that are getting
> in the way of people doing what they want/need to do, Linux (Apple probably
> first) really would have a very strong opportunity to see some growth.

 How many people remember when IBM was pushing their PS/2 systems, with
"Micro Channel" that was going to take over everything? It was better than
ISA, self-configuring, etc. - but totally controlled by IBM. People had
started buying a lot more clones and not "genuine IBM" PCs. IBM wanted to
wrest control of the PC market back from the cloners.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Channel_architecture

 So they fenced in Micro Channel with all kinds of licenses and patents
and expected PC manufacturers to beat a path to their door. They didn't.
They worked with EISA and VLB and such until PCI came around, and by then
IBM was very much an also-ran in the PC market.

 I have to say... Vista brings up strong echoes in my mind. It's not an
exact parallel but there are a lot of similarities. I think MS's reach is
exceeding its grasp here. It happened to IBM (which *owned* computing) and
it's starting to happen to MS. Not just the DRM stuff (which is bad enough)
but their fixation on (harmful) backward compatibility and their development
model being simply not sufficient for managing a codebase of 50+ million
lines (they had to throw out features and start over to get Vista shipped
at all - years late).

 Sincerely,

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