I think the aim is to weaken Microsoft rather than to strengthen GNU/Linux. Microsoft loses over $US125 per XBox sold, and they hope to recoup those costs through the sale of games. Despite this, MS have lost billions on the XBox already. If you can buy an XBox, put GNU/Linux on it and run any software you want, there would be no reason to buy games from MS and they'd lose even more money. XBox sales will probably go up since software can now be run freely on it, which will make things even worse for MS. With MS severely weakened, it will be easier for alternate technologies and companies to mount a decent challenge to MS in _all_ its markets (not just OSs).
The XBox is MS's greatest weak spot. Exploiting it is IMHO the best way to topple the giant. On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 23:35:02 -0600, Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael, > > See http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/ > > Also not that someone will dump $100,000 into the project > each time the porting team completes each of two tasks. > > You'd think there are better place to dump $200,000 into > the Linux community. Odd. > > Miark > > > > Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > > > Can you confirm that with a link? > > This is as close as i got:- > > http://www.techtv.com/news/security/story/0,24195,3388837,00.html > > -- > > Michael -- Sridhar Dhanapalan There's no place like ~
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