I do realise that this statement is quite far out there but the more I think about it the more it makes sense. If you think about it the company that pushed Windows as a gaming platform the most back in the day was Microsoft itself with Golf, Flight Simulator, and that Entertainment package with all the old arcade games coded for Windows. This continued with Age of Empires, Monster Truck Madness, Hellbender, Motocross Madness etc...
Canonical can buy THQ and then re-brand it as a division of Canonical. More important than the actual games, is porting all THQ's technologies over to Ubuntu Even if they bring out something like one game a year, they can use things like game engines (if THQ own any) and other technologies that exists such as OpenGL, OpenAL etc... and use it to setup a set of standards for all game developer companies to use. This division can then work closely with Valve on the steam box and help update and refine other technologies such as SDL 2.0 etc...
And even if they don't purchase THQ setting up a division like this would still be great I reckon. What do you guys think?
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