Lots of people like sex. Very few people like to be raped. The difference is in the consent. Same situation here.

Do you ever wonder why there are so few women in the Open Source world?

By all means, let the tomboy developers enjoy working on their thing, and let everyone who likes it use it, but I could think about a couple of things I'd like those 40MBs used for other than Mono

Open up a shell and type in: $ man mt

It's a victory for great free software applications that just so happen to use Mono. Mono often gets treated as a second class citizen because of its Microsoft roots, with zealots not wanting Microsoft's "unholy embrace" on Linux, whatever that's supposed to mean. Thankfully, there are sane people to defend it and because of this developers don't have to worry about their software not being included in a default install because they just so happened to pick Mono.

Also, how was my original post Flamebait?

An excellent question! I think that's a great idea. However, developers of expensive proprietary software...

Who says the killer app has to come from a developer of expensive proprietary software? Apache certainly didn't.

The FDA, being the State, is of course blameless.

I know you love shoe-horning in "capitalism good government bad" bullshit in every single one of your posts, but I'm curious as to what exactly the FDA did in your hypothetical situation that you imply was worthy of blame?

You're thinking about this the wrong way. Forget running Windows apps, why not have killer apps that are native to Linux and people would switch just to run, other stuff be damned.

It's been done before, (why else do you think linux servers are so popular?) but it's about time the Linux desktop had its own killer app.

Now we can play utterly boring games on other platforms. I can hardly wait.

2/10

Considering the fact that the team size is around 10 or so at this point, and it is one programmer with no other responsibilities while the rest of the team multitasks, I say yes.

World of Goo and Narbaculer Drop weren't badly done Quake clones.

Emphasis on "badly done" because if it was actually a well done Quake Clone I'd be playing the shit out of it.

Worst of all: from the video it appears there is literally zero innovation in the gameplay, its just adhd shooting and running with the same futuristic weapons all over again.

How exactly do you innovate a competitive first person shooter? Give it some weird play mechanic which never ends up being fun at all? Give it realistic weapons and a reload button? Come up with some uber-complicated gametype that nobody will play anyway because it's too complicated and doesn't play well? Add vehicles and turn it into a bad version of Battlefield 1942 instead of a bad version of Quake?

I like simple first person shooters. Years later, I'm still waiting for something to out-Doom Doom 2 or out-quake Quake 3 Arena/Quake Live. That said, Nexuiz isn't a bad game because it doesn't innovate, it's a bad game because it falls into the trap most simple first person shooters fall into, in that instead of refining their core gameplay into something simple, fun, balanced and deep, they just throw a bunch of random content into a box and hope some of it sticks without caring about how it'll play long term.

It's not just the open source projects doing this either, look at how many people are still playing Unreal Tournament 99 and take a look at what they're actually playing (usually autosniper FFA or instagib CTF). Compare this and the number of people still playing the dozens of unforgettable quake clones that came out in the late 90's to the number of people playing Quake 3 Arena in one of it's various incarnations (Original game and Quake Live).

Nexuiz might have enough content for a game, but in terms of gameplay it's not even close to out Quakeing Quake. And that's why it's not noteworthy, not because it's "not innovative", whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean in this context.