“Most games that we are approached with are too close to existing open source games for us to publish… we have no real desire to compete with open source products.”

—  Michael Simms (software developer)

Quoted in "Linux Game Publishing: An Interview With Michael Simms" http://web.archive.org/web/20050712080821/http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/10249 Linux Gazette (2005-06-03)

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