Linked by David Adams on Wed 6th Aug 2008 15:32 UTC
IBM After 10 years of supporting Linux, IBM continues to challenge Microsoft on multiple fronts and aims to push Linux even further into the enterprise. While IBM has competed and partnered with Microsoft over the last two decades, the Microsoft-free PC effort is perhaps its most direct assault yet. "The idea of Microsoft-free personal computing has been in the air for a while," Inna Kuznetsova, director of Linux at IBM, told InternetNews.com. "We're just partnering with Linux distribution vendors and hardware vendors to make it happen."
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google_ninja
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2006-02-05

Loki was a really good company and everyone knew about them. They would port really good year or two old games and sell them for cheap.They founded OpenAL and supported SDL. I personally bought Sim City 3000 and Civilization: Call to Power from them.

People were saying the same thing back then about "If they would just port product x, I would buy it", but every venture into the linux game market has been a commercial failure, even when it is done as conservatively as Loki did.

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jabbotts Member since:
2007-09-06

Boo! I know some other ventures that have failed due to the companies aproach but don't know Loki well enough in that regard. Games where not a consideration for me on *nix at that time.

It's sad to see such a good gaming platform ignored.

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