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Story: Microsoft to Linux: 'Bring it on'

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I think it's a little more complicated than your simple "deduction(s)"
1) Linux is "Low-Cost" or even "Free" ... as in no money needed to just obtain it,
and install it if desired.
1-b) I've not mentioned the / any cost(s) in *time* related to any needs for
"learning" to use/manipulate &/or maintain a linux system.
2) As it happens that much of the initial-Linux-base-of-users I'd say are the
more tech-oriented-folk, and also, cost-concious/ perhaps even cost (monetary)
"fixated"... ie they want a great deal (as in very very cheap, or free),
this presents an opposing ideology to the general "market-forces" at play
with much software to date, especially including games, (a.k.a. game software).
Many software makers, and especially many software game makers are doing
what they do for the financial returns. For them, this works well in the
"Windows-world". In the Linux-world, however, (where many are seeking great
stuff that is free--monitarily), the game-software makers' objectives do not
mesh well. Not that it is an impossibility or insurmountable difficulty...
mind you, it's just that I see it as a "tougher-sell" for the game makers
when going the Linux-route/ trying to break into the Linux-side of the market...
Might I also inject the chicken and the egg metaphor.
As developing games for / to run on Linux systems will/does require some
"extra efforts" for the developers due to the differences in the software
platform, as compared to the Windows platform. Couple that with the need
to generate reasonable returns in order to sustain development, and you
will (might?) realize that it will take some effort to get this ball rolling
enough to generate {some reasonable} "self-sustaining-lift".
Hope I threw enough metaphors in there for you :) And maybe I even made
a point in there as well. :)

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I will offer you my apologies for my gramatical/syntactical atrocities,
if you will agree to at least consider what I've tried to get across to you.
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P.S. I am curious, what version or versions of Linux have you used/ are you
using? I am intending to try it out myself quite soon. :) -Thanks

Marcus

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