[oclug] Bad News re Loki

[Dave Edwards]

Hey Gang,

I just read that Lokigames has filed for bankruptcy.  It's unlikey that 
they'll pull their fat from the fire, but in any event, it's another 
weight on the other side of the scales for the arguments, *OSS and 
business can't co-exist*, or *OSS advocates/Linux users are cheapskates 
and freeloaders*, i.e., *it really _is_ about ``free beer'' -- they won't 
pay.''*  It also adds to a large problem:  the absence of popular apps, 
games in this case.  

It may well be that Lokigames is a poorly run business, and as always, 
it's unjust to extrapolate from the failure of only one organization (the 
collapses of traditional software companies tend not to percolate to the 
top of the news), but Lokigames is a fairly visible company, and this 
will be taken as another bellwether of the demise of Linux/OSS, as when 
Eazel folded -- remember the ``Linux on the desktop is dead'' meme?  Here 
it comes again.  Sigh.

Dave.
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