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    Phoronix: Valve Is Now Giving Away Their Games To Ubuntu Developers

    Since last month Valve has been giving away free access to all their games on Steam to Debian developers. That program has now been expanded and Valve's free Linux games will also be made available to Ubuntu developers...

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  • #2
    Do Ubuntu Members next!

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    • #3
      Originally posted by gQuigs View Post
      Do Ubuntu Members next!
      Linux market share is small enough as is. Making potential profits even smaller by giving away all past, present, and future games for free to users of Debian or Ubuntu is madness. I therefore conclude that you are merely joking.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by FutureSuture View Post
        Linux market share is small enough as is. Making potential profits even smaller by giving away all past, present, and future games for free to users of Debian or Ubuntu is madness. I therefore conclude that you are merely joking.
        I highly doubt Valve's plan is to make money out of current Linux userbase.
        This is about independece of Microsoft and Windows with rising importance of Android/Tablets mobile devices. A world Microsoft doesn't fit quite well ...

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        • #5
          Now Ubuntu developers can wait for Portal 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive just like Debian developers!

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          • #6
            Quick estimate

            a quick estimate from planet ubuntu is that there are about 400 Ubuntu members. I didn't mean Ubuntu users. Membership requires sustained contributions to the Ubuntu project...

            Although to be fair, it would likely be even harder to verify as a lot of us don't use GPG, etc...

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            • #7
              Better numbers from LP

              Ubuntu Members: 760
              Ubuntu developers: ~250

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              • #8
                They should do the same for people who have at least 5 commits to the kernel. Not speaking out of self-interest here.

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                • #9
                  Well, at least this is more appropriate than giving them out to Debian developers was.

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                  • #10
                    Fedora

                    I hope they give this offer to Fedora, openSUSE and Mageia developers too.

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