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Company Seeks To Boost Linux Game Development With 3D Engine Giveaway 140

binstream writes "To support Linux game development, Unigine Corp. announced a competition: it will give a free license for its Unigine engine to a seasoned team willing to work on a native Linux game. The company has been Linux-friendly from the very start; it released advanced GPU benchmarks (Heaven, Tropics, Sanctuary) for Linux before and is working on the OilRush strategy game that supports Linux as well."

Comment Re:FLOSS alternative? (Score 1) 204

Isn't Maya like that now? I think think that its a very smart move. Provide free software to those who want to learn and use it privately, thereby increasing the user base and making that the defacto standard for the companies that are paying for the software and are faced with a choice as to what to get.

Comment Piracy = Gained sales quite often (Score 1) 569

I WAS one of those RAGING pirates in my teens and early twenties. I had 100's of thousands of dollars of pirated software stored and used on my computer. Interesting thing happened, as I played and learned much of that software, once I started working professionally, I got my company to purchase much of the stuff I was pirating at home while learning and playing with it - from upgrading their outdated office suite to purchasing Adobe Master Collection and so forth. So the way I see it, my illegal downloads were actually GAINED sales by the software industry If it wasn't for me pushing the company to get software I needed to do the job they hired me for, which I would have never gotten in a first place if I didn't spend years pirating and learning the aforementioned software they would have never spent thousands of dollars (and continue doing so) on new software now.

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