Kristian: What the Beyond Divinity example shows is a willingness to put up unsupported extras. What those extras actually are should be irrelevant.
rampancy: With an argument like that you'd might as well be asking GOG to include DRM-free pizza and unicorns with their games. :)
Kristian: 5. If GOG wanted to they could limit their support(I must again emphasize that I am not asking for official support only unsupported Linux binaries, but it would be a huge bonus!) to a single disto, such as Ubuntu.
rampancy: But that's exactly what they said they wouldn't do. It's pretty much reduced down to "We should provide complete support to all Linux users, across all Linux platforms, or we won't do it at all." Again, it's not part of some anti-Linux agenda, it's them keeping to standard that they've kept consistent across Windows and Mac OS X. It's not something I immediately or necessarily agree with, but it's something I can understand.
Kristian: 6. While the problem may be bigger on Linux, the Windows world isn't without fragmentation, currently GOG is supporting Windows XP, Vista, 7 & 8 to different extents.
rampancy: It'd be interesting to hear from someone in the know how large the technical differences among XP, 7, and 8 are versus, say, the top three Linux distros.
With an argument like that you'd might as well be asking GOG to include DRM-free pizza and unicorns with their games. :)
Not at all, as far as cost and effort goes there is no difference between that tech demo and Linux binaries.
But that's exactly what they said they wouldn't do. It's pretty much reduced down to "We should provide complete support to all Linux users, across all Linux platforms, or we won't do it at all." Again, it's not part of some anti-Linux agenda, it's them keeping to standard that they've kept consistent across Windows and Mac OS X. It's not something I immediately or necessarily agree with, but it's something I can understand.
You have nailed it on what GOG's stance is, but this is exactly the stance I am arguing against. Just because an extra happens to provide Linux support for a game is no reason not to upload that extra!
I agree with you on your last point.