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From: Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Installers for Blizzard Products
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:33:29
Message-Id: 8cd1ed20706131325s20c1a8f4id63a0fa0476b564d@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Linux Installers for Blizzard Products by Daniel Iliev
1 On 6/14/07, Daniel Iliev <danny@××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hi, guys
3 >
4 > I hope some of you won't find this message too much spam-alike. Today I
5 > accidentally found there is a petition on-line [1]. It represents a
6 > request to Blizzard to include Linux installers in their products. I
7 > thought the gamers from the list might be interested in signing that
8 > petition. Even I'm not a gamer (anymore) I signed it, because I hate
9 > it when big companies ignore the Linux community.
10 >
11 >
12 > [1] http://www.petitiononline.com/ibpfl/
13 >
14
15 +Voted
16
17 I argued I don't game any more _because_ of the lack of linux games
18 that were not already bored with. HIstorically, game dev's argument
19 has been along the lines of 'if they want to game, they'll just use
20 windows, or get a console'.
21
22 What they don't realize, is its possible many of us have simply lost
23 interest in the gaming community simply because 'just use windows'
24 isn't really viable for most of us :P
25
26 And emulation sucks ass, good ol starcraft is only /just/ playable in
27 all the emulators i've tried :( (Wine-family)
28
29
30 --
31 Kent
32 ruby -e '[1, 2, 4, 7, 0, 9, 5, 8, 3, 10, 11, 6, 12, 13].each{|x|
33 print "enNOSPicAMreil kdrtf@×××.com"[(2*x)..(2*x+1)]}'
34 --
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Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Installers for Blizzard Products Daniel Iliev <danny@××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Installers for Blizzard Products "b.n." <brullonulla@×××××.com>