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Valve on Linux Plans

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Ubuntu Vibes quotes (or paraphrases) Valve's Drew Bliss speaking at a Ubuntu Developer Summit in Denmark praising Linux as being amore viable gaming platform that Microsoft's just-released Windows 8. They summarize what they learned about Valve's Linux plans going forward in handy bulleted form:

Steam client is running nicely on Ubuntu and many developers have approached them with good game products.
Cooperation with Canonical has been good.
Ubuntu is preferred platform as it has a large user base and good community support with a strong company like Canonical behind it.
Linux has everything they need: good OpenGL, pulseaudio, OpenAL and input support.
New Source engine games will be available for Linux.
No firm time frame for Steam Linux release, but soon.
Copy protection is up to the game publishers.

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Re: Valve on Linux Plans

Oct 30, 2012, 13:00

Wikidd

Kitkoan wrote on Oct 30, 2012, 00:43: As I said, last I knew, not it is this. From what I read it was, this is why Darwin code its available but why it can't be compiled into a working OS because only what its needed to be open sourced is. Now, instead of acting like a little bitch, could you stop swearing at me and explain the differences and why Darwin is open sourced but not complete? Or do you have no idea? I took a quick look at the BSD license before my last response and from what I read, it works pretty much the same as GPL. You deserve to get heat for not even bothering to look on Wikipedia. You can compile the Darwin code to a working OS, but that OS is not MacOS. It's the plumbing that's underneath MacOS. Any POSIX compliant code should compile and run on the Darwin that Apple releases. As the code has a BSD heritage, Apple is under no obligation to release the code. That's why they've relicensed it as Apple Public Source License, which is a FSF approved but GPL incompatible license. By saying you think the BSD and GPL licenses are similar, it sounds like you're trolling. The BSD says "here's the code, do whatever you want with it" whereas the GPL says "here's the code, if you distribute modifications you must also distribute the source code for those modifications".

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Comment [quote="Wikidd"Oct 30, 2012, 13:00][quote="Kitkoan"Oct 30, 2012, 00:43] As I said, last I knew, not it is this. From what I read it was, this is why Darwin code its available but why it can't be compiled into a working OS because only what its needed to be open sourced is. Now, instead of acting like a little bitch, could you stop swearing at me and explain the differences and why Darwin is open sourced but not complete? Or do you have no idea? I took a quick look at the BSD license before my last response and from what I read, it works pretty much the same as GPL. [/quote] You deserve to get heat for not even bothering to look on [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)]Wikipedia[/url]. You can compile the Darwin code to a working OS, but that OS is not MacOS. It's the plumbing that's underneath MacOS. Any POSIX compliant code should compile and run on the Darwin that Apple releases. As the code has a BSD heritage, Apple is under no obligation to release the code. That's why they've relicensed it as Apple Public Source License, which is a FSF approved but GPL incompatible license. By saying you think the BSD and GPL licenses are similar, it sounds like you're trolling. The BSD says "here's the code, do whatever you want with it" whereas the GPL says "here's the code, if you distribute modifications you must also distribute the source code for those modifications". [/quote]

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