So was the data actually Copyleft before? If not, only the freeware community has lost by this.

But I echo DrMcCoy here in that his choice of licenses is odd and potentially harmful as he would need to hold up the terms of that license himself and could not enlist the the help of the Free Software Foundation.

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As I mentioned in the review, you can trade points between characters, so you could have temporarily acquired the plank by sacrificing a different skill from any of the characters. Although, I have no notion of any level that requires you to use the plank; as I said, puzzles were designed not to rely on any one character, so there probably was another way to handle it all the same.

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This reminds me of the counterfeit Lugaru sold on the iPhone app store - the blame for that really lied on Apple in my opinion, considering that they do vet all content they sell, but not for the benefit of the actual rights holder, apparently. Especially since in that instance Apple dragged its heals when it came to removing the illegitimate version from the store.

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This is not the first time I have seen copyrighted assets in resource packs or other such entities. A lot of people simply do not understand how copyright works, although in my opinion the blame really should be on Unity as the developers in this instance thought they were operating in good faith.

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Quoting: Quote from Mike FrettAs far as the next Source engine, we don't even really know what features it will offer or how well it works. It's too early to talk about. If it spits out games like Serious Sam 3, then it's not going to go very well for that either. That game is a mess of headache inducing, over-bloomed rubbish.

That game is not built on Source, but rather Croteam's own Serious Engine.

Quoting: Quote from HadBabitsAs for steam, I've hardly seen a Linux title on it that wasn't available somewhere else as well, so I'm not too worried.

I would not go that far because there are quite a few, but I have been impressed with the amount of diversity that has remained even after the introduction of Steam. Both Desura and Humble Store have proven to be viable alternatives, more so than I would have expected. In fact, at this point Humble Store fights the good fight for DRM free games far more than Humble Bundle does, strangely enough. 

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Well, I finally got a response from Frictional support; it turns out the problem was that my copy of the game shipped with bad shaders. After replacing them with new shaders they provided the game worked like a treat, although I am left wondering why it took almost a week and a half to get any response out of them. I know it is not their main focus anymore, but you think that after releasing a game on a new distribution platform you would take a bit more of an interest in it again. 

At any rate, they did solve my problem, although I am left wondering if this was truly my problem or something that could affect more Desura users. I did download two versions, one from the  Desura client and independently through the Desura web store, both had issues, so there might be something more going on.

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It has been getting better with incrementally over time, but it would be nice to see things get kicked into high gear. Hopefully this money will do that.

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I vaguely remember playing this game when I was new to Linux. Might be time to give it another go.

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Quoting: Quote from DrMcCoyI have two monitors, each with their own X screen (*), so of course I have Xinerama disabled.

(*) One of the reasons being games trying to be smart and doing insane stuff like stretching over both monitors, not letting me switch to my second monitor mid-game to talk on IRC, not wanting to run on the second monitor, or even switching off the second monitor.

I use Zaphod Heads for exactly the same reason, with the other being that I got sick of other kinds of windows appearing on the second head. I might revisit traditional stretched screen multi-head when Wayland is stable, but for now I am sticking to Zaphod.

Quoting: Quote from Mike FrettIf it makes any difference, I like Worms a little better. It just has a more polished feel. But there isn't much difference and if you like Warmux, you're probably not missing much.

I get the impression that the main benefit is probably the nostalgia for people who had a lot of fun with the original worms games. Nostalgia that I do not have.

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Quoting: Quote from n30p1r4t3I loved Warmux! But as I know it, Worms was just the original. 

I know which came first, my question related to whether or not the worms title in the Bundle offered any real advantage over the free software ones.

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