🚀 go-pugleaf

Patrick <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu> writes:

> On 23 Oct 1998, Peter da Silva wrote:
> 
> > In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.981023091630.11793E-100000@howard>,
> > Patrick  <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu> wrote:
> > >Certainly.  How much SPARC-based, or Alpha-based, etc, software can you 
> > >get, well, ANYWHERE?
> > 
> > Plenty. The only software I run that I don't have source for is Netscape,
> > Photoshop, and Microsoft Orifice. Netscape runs on anything, I'm pondering
> [...]

I don't use any of that dirt.
> 
> All well and good but...  How about TaxEdge?  TaxCut?  How about games 
> (Unreal, Diablo, Half-life).  
> 

They are all obsolete softwares.

> I use linux (and OS/2 with a SMIDGE of Win98 strictly for games).  I use 
> many source-available linux apps.  What isn't there is a lot of 
> user-friendly apps and I have yet to see a HINT of a tax preparation 
> program.  Games?  Non-existent beyond old Doom and QuakeI or II.  Big 
> whup.  

That's an utter lie. The best games, like nethack and dominion, are available
for Linux. 

> 
> You may well get by without games but guess what the SINGLE biggest 
> money-making software group is...games.  No games, no mass market 
> appeal.  The games that do exist don't count because they are pathetic 
> 1980's-style low-grade, low production quality freeware.  xboing?  
> xgalaga?  Pa-leeze.  
> 
No, nethack is an extremely high quality game. It values content over surface,
as any decent software does, The corporations only produce crappy GUI-burdened
junk, like quake and similar dangerous mindfriers.

	Klaus Schilling