Carolina QuotesI can find lots of examples where a game won't make you rich, but I can't find a reasonable case where a Linux port doesn't have at least a small, positive return on investment.
Ryan C. Gordon Carolinian
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Quoted in Robin Heggelund Hansen, "Porting games to Linux" hardware.no (2009-03-10)
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- 2009
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“I can find lots of examples where a game won't make you rich…” Ryan C. Gordon. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-5B665BDFF0. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/5b665bdff0
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