One job description for programming said "an interest in sports" as a requirement for a non sport related company. Just because they list "Linux experience as a plus" on a valve job listing doesn't mean they're working on a Linux port of their games which was big news a while ago. The same thing for the whole Linux Steam Client news. The FSF has made a big mistake listing that job. Companies do this all the time, it doesn't mean they're making a game on Linux, in fact anyone taking the job most likely won't be working on linux at all. Listing "Linux" as a BONUS SKILL means nothing. Why do you people always jump to conclusions based on almost no information at all?! It's pretty damn obvious that the games being tested are commercial and non-linux. Begin Rant - First, "OMG Steam client on Linux!!11oneone" and now this. I'm posting this for anyone that writes news articles on Linux or free software. This is something that annoys me greatly. In the end, a bigger audience (because open source games often are in GNU/Linux distro's repositories.) A lower transition barrier ("games is the only reason I use windows!"). ^^ What we do earn is publicity for Linux. The only thing we'll loose is a billion of project that start merely for being able to play a commercial game natively on Linux. But then I come to my senses: it's nor good nor bad, it is natural evolution of the gaming market expanding to where money is.
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Sometimes I catch myself trying to figure out whether to support, oppose or ignore this pro-commercial-games-on-Linux development and try to figure out whether it is something good or bad. Nothing *really* spectacular, the pay is 10 Dollars per hour, but together with World of Goo being released for Linux, I certainly do get the impression that the penguin becomes relevant for selling games faster. So it's probably not a commercial open source game project that this is about, but apparently one will test the game on the GNU/Linux platform and most likely use open source tools for bug reporting.
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So I think to myself "Yeah, right! This has a logical explanation to it! Game theory I bet! So I click it and BAM! O_o! It's a real job offering for beta testing video games and it's posted on the Free Software Foundation's home page!
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So I was browsing the FSF homepage because I wanted to dig up some info on their PDF priority project - but never mind that - and then I think "Let's check out them job listing!" and I do and then BAM! Game Test Analysts, (Santa Monica, CA).