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Well codeweavers is also making a foray into the gaming market with the soon to be released version of crossover.

The key is to entice software companies to see the viability of porting to the linux platform. WINE is probably the best way of doing this. WINE is not emulator despite what many people say. That is what the acronym stands for...That said If Devs work toward making their apps %100 compatible with WINE then this will allow the best possible portability with apps.

If Software companies dedicated at least 1 or 2 devs toward WINE compat testing this would allow them to get a sizable and growing market in the Linux area. WINE is the key to this. Cedega while good, in my opinion is not going to last because of issues like subscriptions. When WINE goes 1.0 there is a likley chance that 90 percent of apps will work on it.

At that point free is better than 5 bucks a month. Once Wine is easy enough to use for end users then Cedega will be obsoleted IMO.

Again all devs need to do is make wine compatible apps. From an economic standpoint this makes alot of sense for a company to do. A full linux port would require a team of deveolpers on it's own.

I suspect that this is happening somewhat in the software/gaming industry now. We are seeing more porting in the gaming industry now. Hopefully it will just increase.

You know Jack Thompson isnt the first moron to do this. The industry will survive despite his idiocy.

Any comic book fans may know what the Comics Code Authority is It is the ESRB version for comics. Some comics companies use it some don't. Anyway my point is that in the 50's there was this whole issue with comics....here let me post the wikipedia info which pretty much describes it and you can draw your own conclusions:

"The CCA was founded in 1954, in respose to a public outcry about what was deemed inappropriate material in many comic books, especially crime and horror comics, and the sexual innuendo of Good Girl Art. Dr. Frederic Wertham's book Seduction of the Innocent rallied opposition to this sort of material in comics, arguing that it was harmful to the children who made up a large segment of the comic book audience. Congressional hearings led by Senator Estes Kefauver had many publishers concerned about government regulation, prompting them to form a self-regulatory body to prevent that."

Gee sound familiar? The industry will survive as long as it regulates itself. At this point retailers need to be the ones who are to blame for letting games with adult content or even mature content get sold. This is purely a retailer thing. Idiots like thompson are indeed in it for attention. And they get the attention indeed. In the end they will fade into history's obscurity. Free media has always prevailed and always will.

Restrictions to it should be applied to the individual level. Free Speech also means free choice. You can choose to listen or you can choose not to. Anyone who says otherwise is full of crap and is a totalitarian. This is up to people to choose and retailers to enforce ratings.

Freedom of choice is the issue here. It is obvious that JT wants to take that away by trying futily to bring this industry down.

Using the comics reference He did the equivalent of burning comic books by buying stock in this company.

anyway here is my wiki reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority

:P long rant but I strongly feel free speech and choice must prevail. As long as things get squelched in the name of.... because of someone's self intrests politically or monetarily we will find ourselves quickly losing freedoms that we currently enjoy as a country