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Avoid Activision, Support Valve

Posted in GNU/Linux at 12:57 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Activision

Summary: GNU/Linux distribution SteamOS is officially out tomorrow and Activision turns out to be actively against GNU/Linux

Valve and Activision (Subsidiary of Activision Blizzard) are both companies with some connections or roots in Microsoft. Valve’s CEO used to work for Microsoft and Activision is a Microsoft partner that nearly got bought by Microsoft. But there is a fundamental difference between those two companies.

Over the past year or so Valve has shown that it is serious about GNU/Linux, as we noted several times. SteamOS is coming out tomorrow [1,2], boasting a growing number of games [3]. The same goes for Desura [4], but not for Activision.

According to reports [5,6], Activision is actively blocking development for GNU/Linux. Activision deserves a lot of flak for this. Hit Activision in the pocket where it hurts a company the most. █

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2 Comments

  1. BrownieBoy said,

    December 12, 2013 at 6:55 pm

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    Hmmm….

    Not supporting Linux is one thing. But to actively prevent your partner for doing so, and for no technical reason?

    Smacks of a pay-off to me. And we all know who’s likely to be doing the paying. They’ve got form…

    Dr. Roy Schestowitz Reply:
    December 12th, 2013 at 7:40 pm

    Yes, exactly my point.

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