fsf.org — "By making the recommended changes in any or all of these five areas (free software drivers, proprietary BIOS locks, free BIOS support, the ?Microsoft Tax,? Digital Restrictions Management) hardware vendors will help establish a mutually beneficial relationship with the free software community."
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schestowitzMar 3, 2007
They have one major peril to face and that's incentives (see below), industry deadlocks, and return on investments (or lockins). I'm optimistic, but I don't expect Free (as in Free speech) to necessarily lower the cost of a PC.Preinstalled Open Source: The Next OS Battleground?,----[ Quote ]| The terms of the contracts between [some company] and computer manufacturers make it profitable to ignore| Linux, according to Dr. James Bottomley, CTO for SteelEye Technology, a software security developer for networks.`----<a class="user" href="http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/56043.html">http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/56043.html</a>
sirhomerMar 3, 2007
2007 is the year for preinstalled Linux :)
mrsteveman1Mar 3, 2007
BTW, the point of Wine and cedega is to make the Win32 API(s), and Directx as well as any library the game needs to run, available under linux, if its implemented correctly it doesn't matter how new the game is, thats the whole point. Cedega in fact has a business model built around it, that seems to be working very well.
dkoonMar 4, 2007
First of all, it's not new games if it's more than 1 year... maybe even half a year. I understand you have to learn to use anything new, but why would I want to spend my time to learn a new OS which can only do almost all the thing that I can do right now. Instead I can just spend more time with my family, play some "new" games, or make more money with the time I have. I don't want to learn Linux "yet" because I have no use of it, it doesn't mean I'm not willing to learn "anything" or have a "systemic problem". This is one of the thing I absolutely hate Linux fanboys, you guys talk like you are superior to everyone, people who don't want to learn the things you like are either idiots or they have problems.I understand that you can make money under GPL, but we are talking about hardware vendors here, not software companies.
mrsteveman1Mar 4, 2007
Linux fanboy? I'm using windows right now......calm down.Almost 70% of people on this site are half retarded, so obviously anyone you come across, you expect to be a fanboy of some sort, nothing you can do about it though :DTo my knowledge cedega can play anything that uses directx 9, which is pretty much everything regardless of how new it is. Its also cheaper than a windows license if you don't have one etc, which is true for a large number of gamers who build new systems.Linux has plenty of uses, anyone telling you that you must use one thing or another because they are superior is also, you guessed it, half retarded. My point was, its not neccesary to stick to windows for games, its not even that hard to play them in Linux, but most people use linux systems that are also half retarded and broken and thus linux has a rep for being incredibly hard to use.
geekeeMar 4, 2007
There's no Microsoft tax. It's more expensive to ship pc's without Windows for volume manufacturers because it's a custom setup that most people do not want, but still requires special handling in production. Plus there's no desktop advertising on the shipped pc. End result, a Linux PC is MORE expensive than a Windows PC.
dhughesMar 4, 2007
It's not like you're removing a piece of hardware, you're skipping the step that loads Windows onto the hard drive. Just bypass the part where the OS is loaded onto the blank HD and move on, the company will save time and less time means money saved.
xvampirexMar 4, 2007
Chris, OpenGL is not even the same as DirectX. DirectX can be compared to SDL while Direct3D can be compared to OpenGL. DirectSound could be compared to OpenAL, too.Where is it? In many games. For example, Doom 3/Quake 4 is using SDL on Linux while DirectX on Windows. But both of those versions use OpenGL.And I can very well game on Linux, thank you.