There was an interesting piece of news yesterday - Valve
were recruiting a software enginner here. So it gets 1282 Digg's - all saying "Wow - L1nux Roolz", "Google OS here we come", "Valve have finally listened", "No more rebooting", and so on.

All this from one line saying "Port Windows-based games to the Linux platform." But which part of the games? The 3D client part, or the server part? It doesn't say in the ad, but the Diggers are convinced it's the 3D game. And they're already wetting themselves over the prospect of playing it.

Alas, not one line in the job spec asks for OpenGL, DirectX, audio, or any of the other topics involved in this area of games development. What it asks for instead is experience in "developing communications software" and informs us that the candidate will "Manage the operation of large clusters of machines". Does this still sound like a 3D game dev job?

No, me neither.

So, why is every post mentioning this simple fact Dugg down, while the rabid fan-boys using l33t sp33k have +37 diggs for saying this ensures the adoption of Linux.

No wonder we're in trouble.