[svlug] Loki - The Major Linux Porting House Files for Bankruptcy

[kevin@ank.com]

Oh, I'm not so sure about that.  I'd happily pay Loki or anyone else
who would build and package FlightGear for me ready to install and
run on RH7.1.  That source is a pain to build, and the number of libraries
to download and get working becomes mind numbing.  There are a number of
others that are the same way; a precompiled MAME with legally licensed
ROMS might sell well, etc.

Cheers,
-kls

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 07:15:31PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:20:31PM -0400, Bill Jonas wrote:
> > Which would be better -- for Loki to never have existed and we'd never
> > have had those free libraries?  Or for them to bring entertainment
> > software to us, even if it's proprietary?  Even id Software has released
> > the source to a few of their games (Doom, Quake).
> 
> Id has a better record at freeing their games than Loki. I appreciate
> the free libraries from Loki but they have been trying to derive all
> their revenue through games as far as I know and they haven't released
> a free game.
> 
> Not that I'm implying that a free software gaming compnany has any
> resonable business model. Personally I don't think that the Linux game
> market is good for anybody who wants to make money. It's a very
> different class of software than OS's or high end server software. I
> don't think you can expect people to pay for game tech support or
> services.
> 
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