[Pierre-Marie Baty]

@Hacksmith the Infidel:
Good day. We appreciate that you came to this forum. But as stated in our FBRC, which you must have read before registering, please moderate your posts. Don't start a flamewar and keep discussions on topic as much as possible. You have your views on politics, economy and a lot of subjects (up to the place of some middle east religions on earth and the respectability of frenchmen) certainly, and we have ours. Please share only those which are relevant to this forum, and don't flame people. Qazme was not necessarily supposed to know that there existed a Scrap Iron podbot server 2 years ago.

Besides, if you are not a programmer you have strictly no authority to debate whether GNU/Linux did "plagerize" the AT&T UNIX or not. If you read the facts you'll see that Linux, which is just a KERNEL, not a system, was developed by Mr Torvalds out of Minix as a CHEAP alternative to UNIX for PCs based on the Intel architecture. It has not, and never had, any other ambition. Its first target was computer engineering students. And additionally, if you start hyping here the latest Microsoft OSes for their so-said security, some people here will gently remind you that Microsoft DID, indeed, plagerize the BSD network layer to put it in its once praised Win2k/XP. Plagerize ? wait, RIP OFF. Easy: the BSD license allows any commercial use of its source code. And not counting the fact that I trust more an OS for which there are security fixes once a week than one for which these fixes came out once a month only, you can be certain that large parts of the BSD sockets layer are already implemented in the Linux kernel. Look it up, it's there.

And finally, as Terran says, the Half-Life engine supports 2 platforms: Windows and Linux. Go and look up the proportion of trustable HL servers on the net that run Linux, and the proportion that run Windows. This repartition legitimizes greatly the need to make third-party addons available for Windows AND for Linux. Regardless of the so-said quality of each operating system, which is here off-topic and pointless.

Respect is due, it is not earned. It doesn't prevent me to wish you a good time on our forums. Welcome.