Re: [GD-General] Re: Hardware Survey

[Parveen K. <pk...@al...>]

On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 04:01, Enno Rehling wrote:
> Daniel Vogel wrote:
> >>>That 40% for Linux servers makes it very clear that we absolutely have
> >>>to do a dedicated linux port, sigh <g>. At least we don't have to
> >>>worry about the client -- 0.69% -- very generous for you guys to even
> >>>bother with a client port, it clearly had no financial benefit.
> >>
> >>That's actually a good question. Daniel, what was the motivation behind
> >>building and supporting a Linux client?
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> > Mark summed it up nicely in his post to our forums.
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> > http://www.ina-community.com/forums/showthread.php?s=3D&threadid=3D2011=
70
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> I'm a latecomer to this list, and reading archives. This thread has=20
> disappeared from the boards, can anyone point me to a mirror?

IIRC, the conversation went something like:

"We are impatient fanboys.  Why are you wasting time with a Linux
client?  We want the game yesterday."

"We are intelligent developers.  And we realize that porting our engine
to many platforms results in a stronger product."

Of course, I'm paraphrasing a little bit.

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Parveen Kaler <pk...@al...>
http://www.sfu.ca/~pkaler