There's also talks about Source Engine being ported to Linux.
Now, I'm not really privy to how high-end game development works, so I can't really say how much the engine lets developers really keep their hands off of DirectX/OpenGL stuff, but I have let myself to believe that stuff really is handled mostly by the engine.
Ergo, if the engine handles the graphics stuff and it's ported to use OpenGL on Linux, it should, in essence, make Linux & OpenGL at least a little bit less repulsive choice for game devs.
The issue about 3D video drivers still stands, though. However... if people are able to put up with closed-source, proprietary stuff like Steam Client, Source Engine and the games themselves in the first place, they are most likely going to have proprietary binary blob drivers, too.
Note: I don't do much current gaming, I am only in near future going to switch all-linux, and haven't really had any experience how good or bad the binary drivers are. So take my comments with a grain of salt.
And if said virus killed your family? It's easy to make off the cuff statements that 'censorship' is bad, when researchers also have a responsibility to think of the ramifications of their research.
Wrong question.
I'd be much, much more concerned if the scientists will discover a working vaccine before this mutation happens in the wild, and to that end, SCIENCE needs to be done. Suppression of research is clearly harmful to this goal. So, I'd be asking the question: "And if said virus, having mutated in wild, killed your family, and the vaccine wasn't ready in time thanks to idiots who wanted to make it harder to discover with their security theater?"
And honestly, the way I see it, the harmful info is already out there. If the terrorists have a grasp of biology, and the resources at the level they would be able to actually do these things, the information that H5N1 can actually mutate into something this dangerous is enough. Suppressing this research is doing nothing else but letting the bad guys have all the weapons.
What if I build a $50 million safe with walls as thick as a normal house, a hundred different lock mechanisms and all sorts of thinkable measures to protect its content to the point where you would need to pour insane amounts of resources (costing along the lines of the cost of a supercomputer or two) to get into it. Would that mean I should suddenly be held in contempt by default if I forget how to access my safe's contents?
The thing with meatspace is that none of those intricate lock mechanisms or even house-thick steel walls really matter a damn (I have no idea who would end up footing the bill for drilling it, though) when they are faced with destructive power tools. Any amount of any physical stuff between the prosecutor and evidence is still just physical stuff that can be drilled through, not some kind of extradimensional wall of universe that simply "won't get punched through no matter what". On the other hand in cyberspace, with encryption, the supercomputer or two won't do shit against properly-done strong encryption, unless the three letter agencies have actually built that quantum computer already. The power of math behind encryption is exactly that nothing short of really impressive paradigm-shift stuff (the stuff that happens once or twice in a century, max) will undo it.
All your files have been destroyed (sorry). Paul.