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Rovio Has No Plan Of Bringing Angry Birds To Ubuntu

By on January 12th, 2011     
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Last week a tweet (or rather a reply) from the official Rovio Twitter account sent Ubuntu fans into a tizzy. When asked if they have plans to bring Angry Birds to the Ubuntu Software Center now that they have it in the Mac App Store, they replied that they are looking into it. This led to excitement among the Ubuntu users thinking that Rovio is actively doing something about it.

However, Ville Heijari of Rovio told open source website Muktware that Rovio has no such plan to bring Angry Birds to Ubuntu at the present.

This is what he said:

Ubuntu is another one of the platforms we are investigating, but we don't have any details regarding any development on Ubuntu yet.

This does not mean that they will bring Angry Birds to Ubuntu. It simply means that Rovio is not working on it and has no plans to develop for Ubuntu now. They are keeping their options for now.

The mindset of Linux users is generally perceived as being against paid/commercial software. So, commercial software developers generally keep a distance from Linux. However time and again this has been proved to be false. For example in the recently concluded Humble Indie Bundle #2, the average donation from Linux users was significantly greater that from users of Mac and Windows. Moreover, the total payment from Linux users is almost the same as that from Mac users.

So, Rovio bring your game to Linux. I am sure Linux users will not mind paying for quality software.




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  • http://cad.cx Colin Dean

    Most free software folks make an exclusion for games. They often see games as something which otherwise have no value. A spreadsheet program or a graphics program, for example, have use a business tool and the business pays for development of the software. Games are different, as there is no other mode of revenue for game developers other than paying for it or putting ads in. I’d rather pay than have intrusive ads.

    One mode of revenue for open source game development is to sell hardware with the game on it. Tux Racer did this and the arcade cabinet was awesome. Such an avenue takes more of an investment and is a pretty niche market. It’s a whole lot easier to sell the game on Steam, App Store, Market, or whatever for a few bucks and perhaps open source it after a few years or once the development cost has been recouped.

  • Linux Enthusiast

    Linux users seem to tend to buy to support a cause. Simply making an app available, doesn’t always seem to work. If they did make it available however, it would greatly simplify things if they chose to start small by making it available through a distribution service like Ubuntu Software Center or Suse Gallery.

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  • Anonymous

    no floss license prevents the developer for selling the software.



Rovio Has No Plan Of Bringing Angry Birds To Ubuntu was originally published on Digitizor.com on January 12, 2011 - 12:53 am (Indian Standard Time)