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The readme talks about plans for Linux support, but I'm guessing that's no longer on the table after the Epic acquisition? Sweeney is the single most publicly anti-Linux CEO I'm aware of.

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https://x.com/rfleury/status/1987771794263363859?s=20 You can see the progress in the GitHub repo, seems like Linux support is the next big feature being worked on

The repository was first open sourced 2 years after the acquisition. Nothing has changed about the project’s goals. We are working on the Linux port now. It’s currently our top priority.

I'm happy Epic hasn't influenced your goals yet. It's only a matter of time.

Give the ideology a rest. Nothing will change.

AFAIK, RAD was acquired by Epic before Ryan began working on the Linux port

It was acquired before I even joined the company.

It usually takes some time for an acquisition to result in significant cultural shift in the acquired company, but it always happens in the end.

Nothing has changed about the project’s design, intentions, or goals in the 5 years since the acquisition. This is just ideological.

Do you expect an IAP peddler to support free software?

Yes actually: plenty of companies don't care where the money comes from, they're happy as long as there's money. Unity, the other big ad- and IAP-peddling game engine company, has pretty good Linux support.

It's weird for a company to explicitly say, "if you use this one operating system you can go F yourself, we don't want your money". (Note: this is not the same as saying "we only officially support Windows at this time, sorry". There's seething hatred in Sweeney's words.)

I suppose Apple bribed him to support Macs. Who's going to bribe him to support Linux, RedHat? Canonical?

> Do you expect an IAP peddler to support free software?

Valve does.

Valve doesn't own RAD though

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