Quoting: Theredbaron"about time" my rear. The mean time between HIB's is about the same as it has always been.

Actually, this is incorrect. The mean time has always been dropping due to the longer gap between the first three bundles.

I calculate the HIB end to start lead time fo the current bundle to be 77 days. The average is closer to 150. The point that there wasn't noteworthy distance between this bundle and the previous HIB stands, but I think the "about time" thing is more about the saturation of promotions which don't adhere to the early principles that Humble Bundle's work was guided by.

Here's a chart, because I like charts.

Edit: Wow, that turned out smaller than I expected. Try this [External Link] instead or head over to HumVis [External Link].

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI seriously doubt the software company has told us all the facts, frankly.  Because I've been following the FSF for a fair number of years, and their track record is pretty clear:  They always ask nicely first and try to work with people who aren't in compliance.

The post from the devs say that their first notice from the FSF arrived at a time at which they weren't able to respond to it immediately and it took them some time to confirm (of feel confident) that they were in fact communicating with the FSF, so it does sound like there was potentially an early non-confrontational attempt at communication.

It's hard to imagine that the developers would get away with hiding key aspects in their post if that post was part of the stuff that the FSF requested they do before they could obtain a licence again.

Quoting: AnonymousI don't think that is what happened - read more about it here:

"Important: Use of GLIBC in node-webkit and licensing"
https://groups.google.com/forum [External Link]/#!forum/node-webkit

In any case, this is all really weird!

I think you mean this URL https://groups.google.com/d/topic/node-webkit/csl3efXAg9U/discussion [External Link]

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Quoting: liamdaweI'm betting on Worms and Superfrog HD for the extra games!

I suspect we're more likely to see additional Klei, FB and DF stuff personally ;)

Detailed stats [External Link] for this bundle are up if anybody wants to compare it with previous ones.

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Oh my wow. I still play this game in UAE. This is the coolest news on the face of the planet right now.

Edit: Hmm, after watching a gameplay vid of the Playstation version of Superfrog HD, I'm not certain how I feel about it. Graphics and audio feel weird and not quite superfroggy. Still, this seems to be a sign that Team 17 are looking at being serious about Linux support, which is awesome.

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Quoting: AnonymousExactly note-webkit is merely dynamically linked to the existing glibc (.so) on the end-user machine... like almost every other linux program does.

Hmm, I managed to get my hands on the demo, and it doesn't appear to be distributed with any libs aside from libffmpegsumo (I'm uncertain of what is statically linked though). That said, I grabbed the now-hidden download URL from Google's cached version of their download page - it's possible that those packages have been updated to not include stuff that was previously distributed.

If they weren't distributing glibc (whether statically linked, as a .so or built into another library's .so), then one has to ask why they'd write a blog post that said they had been.

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Quoting: AnonymousWhat they did not!

FSF made a mistake, which they have now to clarify. That is the real story here.

So the game didn't come with libc.so (or didn't have it statically built in)?

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Quoting: Kenneth GraunkeYet, I don't see every piece of software on my Linux distribution acknowledging that they use glibc and shipping a copy of the LGPL with it.  It's a standard system library.

It sounds to me like the real issue is that they didn't include the licence details (which every Linux distribution does), and that because of that, they need to now make everybody aware that they were distributing glibc.

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Quoting: scaineOh, and Cheese - yeah, I've commented on the "Alien Swarm for Linux" thread on Steam. Two chances of that happening though, Jack and shit. And Jack's left town. :)

It's speculation of course, but I think chances of it happening are pretty good. Certainly, the legacy GldSrc titles looked far less likely, and we have all of those now.

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Quoting: scaineI appreciate that this is Valve we're talking about, but has there ever been an indication made public about the availability of CS:GO or Portal 2? I'm gagging to play Portal 2 again... :)

Not that I've spotted. IIRC, L4D2 and TF2 were the only ones we had prior notice of, so that in itself isn't out of the ordinary.

Personally, I'm hanging out for Alien Swarm :D

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Quote from CheesenessI'm super proud to have played a role in this (even if it was only as a messenger) and I can't wait to play ND with you all at some stage in the future :D

Yep, awesome work, Cheese. I'd never have even thought to put these two in touch so directly. You kind of assume that that level of communication is already taking place!

I had the opportunity to nudge somebody from Valve and ask what they thought the situation should be so far as availability of Linux resources for Source goes, and it didn't quite match the impression that InterWave seemed to have. I certainly don't want to be pointing blame at anybody - I'm just glad that it sounds like things are starting to get cleared up.

Quoting: liamdaweSomeone needs to do this for the insurgency developers to get Valve to give them the code they need from CS:GO too ;)

Would be worth waiting until after CS: GO launches on Linux.

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