Quoting: Purple Library GuyThese do seem to be cases of copyright infringement, but for the most part don't seem to be cases of open source code being ripped off. Rather, in the summaries and linked posts I see again and again references to proprietary non-commercial code, which I take to be closed-source blobs with licenses which allow sharing but not resale.
Thus the problem is mostly people violating closed source licenses which do not allow commercial use. I had been intending to ask whether these folks have talked to the Free Software Foundation, who might be able to help and/or give useful legal advice--but if the issue is non-Free software, that might not be a relevant question.

This. If you feel like free software developers should be credited and compensated, that's fair, but distributing GPL-licensed software commercially in a compliant way isn't an issue, legally or ethically. As far as I can see, all the listed cases pertain to non-free software.

Regardless of openness, ripping people working on awesome projects off still isn't nice though.

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If you're on an Arch-based distro and have no sound, compile openal soft yourself and replace it in the lib64 subdirectory of the game.

Also yeah, the second chapter is awesome.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: qptain NemoVery nice of them to actually attribute Westwood studios as the developer on Steam.

They made some great classics; doesn't look like they are attributed with much on Steam, though:
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Westwood%20Studios [External Link]

I don't believe there is any other Westwood game on Steam at the moment.

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Very nice of them to actually attribute Westwood studios as the developer on Steam.

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Quoting: Jahimself-Anachronox: Works perfectly even with the resolution patch from WSGF

I'd say Anachronox works especially well with the resolution patch from WSGF.
Heck, in older versions of both wine staging and Reshade I got Reshade working with Anachronox with the WSGF patch [External Link]. Really hope that accomplishment can be reconquered someday. (I haven't tried in a while though)

Oh, also I'm 99% sure you can run Outcast but it needs .NET stuff.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo I know this is kind of off the "Gaming on Linux" topic, but does anyone know how well key Windows productivity software runs on Wine these days? Like Office, or CAD things, or Photoshop, or financial or tax stuff? My instincts are that most of those should be less of a problem than games because they aren't leaning on the graphics hard like games do, but hunches are unreliable.

I don't know if this counts as "key" or not but as a composer I rely on the excellent airwave + wine for some of the VSTs (software synthesizers) I have. From my experience, I'd say it's not that different from games. Because on one hand just like with games it all mostly works pretty great at this point, but also one obscure API call, GUI behavior or something like dependency on .NET can easily make it all unravel and create problems. Especially if you throw insane attempts at DRM into the mix. (though thankfully as much as a pain in the ass it is, .NET works fairly reliably too if you isolate it)

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Quoting: mrdeathjrIn this wine version torchlight 1 back to work normally with GLSL

View video on youtube.com

Castle of Illusion still works

View video on youtube.com

^_^

I just realized you recorded three hours of footage for this. You insane, insane man. Respect. <3

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: qptain NemoThat depends on what you consider "reality". It's the number of people who are both fairly committed to only playing on Linux most of the time and still interested in the particular game.

Well I for one am so committed that you won't find non-Linux games on my wishlist. Even ones that I'd like to see on Linux.

EDIT: My point is, this only works for Linux gamers who know about this feature, don't mind filtering out Windows games on Steam's front page and don't mind cluttering up their wishlists with games they might never be able to play. That means there's bound to be a lot of potential Linux customers either unknowingly or intentionally missing from that number.

Yeah, just to be clear, I didn't mean to introduce the idea of judging different people's level of commitment, just to point out that this personal choice to filter out things has a certain weight to it because of the consequences it carries, i.e. certain games will not be marketed to the people who choose to do so.

That's fair.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: edoNow devs will finally realize how really few people are the people making so much noise about linux versions of the games.

Just in case you're not being sarcastic: If they "realize" anything at all based on these numbers, they're idiots. This number won't come close to reflecting reality, partly due to the problems brought up here. If Steam had a proper port wishlist feature, it might help in gauging interest. As it is, developers and publishers would do much better with Linux sales data on current ports of games in their genre/market.

That depends on what you consider "reality". It's the number of people who are both fairly committed to only playing on Linux most of the time and still interested in the particular game. You can point out the inconvenience of it all, but it seems pretty real and meaningful to me. We might dislike that this number will be small, what it suggests, and that a dedicated "no tux, no bux" button would be much better, and so on, but that doesn't mean it's a meaningless number.

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The art style is atrocious but the concept is intriguing.

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