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Message-ID: <45A34146.3000709@gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:16:22 +0100
From: Dirk <d_i_r_k_@....net>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
CC: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@...el.hist.no>,
Jay Vaughan <jv@...ess-music.de>,
Trent Waddington <trent.waddington@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Gaming Interface
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 04:36:01PM +0100, Dirk wrote:
>> Helge Hafting wrote:
>> ...
>>> Either _you_ code your game interface yourself, or you fund
>>> some developers to do it for you. It is that simple. You can
>>> of course come here and ask advice about how to do it
>>> and what parts will be accepted into the kernel and what parts
>>> must stay outside it.
>>>
>>> This is not the place to post an idea and then expect someone
>>> to actually program it. This is the place where you may discuss
>>> an idea, and then find out if Linus might accept your patch - or not!
>>>
>>> Helge Hafting
>> Alright. I came to discuss an idea I had
>
> Open source does not work by telling about some seemingly good idea you
> had and expecting other people to implement your idea.
>
> Open source works by you implementing your idea.
>
> Try it yourself, and you will see the technical problems of your idea
> (e.g. porting userrspace code to the stack-limited kernel or crashing
> the whole computer with bugs in the libraries) yourself.
>
>> because I realized that
>> installing Windows and running Linux in VMware is the only _fun_ way to
>> play "real" Games and have Linux at the same time.
>>
>> And everyone who says I'm a troll doesn't like Games or simple things.
>
> You talk as if you knew everything about games on Windows, but you seem
> to not even have heard of Wine or Cedega?
I tried to get WoW installed with Cedega 5.2.9 for two days now.
Cedega is not a replacement for ports. And it does not encourage ports.
>
> Please do your homework before spreading wild guessings and ideas.
>
Please don't do this...
Dirk
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