Quoting: CorbenDid I get this right? Microsoft bought the studio? If know the Linux version will still happen?
I‘m afraid they won‘t let them...

I just saw the news. Really sad development, since it was a good studio. Now Linux and DRM-free games will go out of the windows for them.

We Happy Few will probably go according to the original plan: https://compulsiongames.com/en/news/178/we-happy-few-coming-august-10-2018-and-compulsion-joining-the-microsoft-studios-family [External Link]

Though they don't mention Linux explicitly in the announcement.

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Considering Wine, Mafia is on good sale now. For the GOG version you also need to get the missing soundtrack though [External Link].

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I'm more concerned about Paradox's ambiguous stance on DRM.

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Good to hear that Linux release is still planned. GOG removed Linux from its game page before for some reason, and it was a bit suspicious. Looks like now it's listing Linux again.

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https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs/issues/366 [External Link]

They might find some solution, but nothing is supported now.

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Quoting: sub"no vulkan allowed" storefront.

You mean Vulkan API apps are not allowed on the Microsoft store?
Really? Can you please point me to a source?

I think they only allow UWP, and UWP doesn't support Vulkan. So the result - no Vulkan applications allowed.

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Hehe. Apple deprecate OpenGL support on macOS. Game developers deprecate macOS support altogether. Way to go Apple to alienate developers even more.

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Quoting: jensThey need the GitHub community and the users to keep GitHub as the de-facto standard for professional source code hosting in the cloud.

Catch is, community doesn't need them really. With MS reputation, it would be hard to convince people to stay and even more so, new ones to join. I expect Github to lose its de-facto standard status in result of this. So it might be a good move for MS (from MS perspective) to lure people to Azure, but it's a ruinous move for Github itself and its community.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeA friend of mine was just giving me shit about hating github now. I was in the middle of the whole debacle when Elop killed MeeGo (still love my N900 and N9)

I still have my N950 with Harmattan, though more like a collection item.

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Here is also some fun reading for those who have FOSS projects: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/MSFT-Oracle-Brief.pdf [External Link]

Basically there MS explain why they think APIs are copyrightable.

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