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Re:Valve is developing Steam for Linux, says Michael Larabel... by hollerith on Wednesday April 25, 2012 @11:56AM (#3889610)
And that ~13% of the market that have a Mac are willing to spend money on apps whereas most of the 1 or 1.5% of the market on Linux have a philosophical objection to proprietary applications and to DRM.
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Re:Valve is developing Steam for Linux, says Michael Larabel... by jiggy2011 on Wednesday April 25, 2012 @05:14PM (#3891138)
Do they? There are of course Free Software fundamentalists who will not touch proprietary software but I don't think the majority will fit into that.

There are already a number of companies selling proprietary software for Linux.

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