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CNet about Xbox Linux's open letter to MS *updated*
>> CNet wrote some news today about the open letter the Xbox-Linux team wrote to Microsoft. (reported on this site 2days ago ... CNet is kinda slow ;p)
They also have a short interview with Andy Green (Xbox Linux crew):
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"The letter is a genuine request for Microsoft to consider allowing Xbox Linux to run on the Xbox without discriminatory extra effort needed on the part of the user," he said in an e-mail interview.
"We decided to actually ask Microsoft because up until now we have had zero contact with them, despite trying to reach out once before, as we describe in the letter," Green said. "We can see from feedback that it is being widely seen as a brave attempt at a lost cause, but we're not so sure. Nobody knows for sure what Microsoft's response to us and our concept of a Microsoft-approved Linux will be until we ask and get a reply."
"Xbox Linux's situation is plenty more discriminated against than Netscape with their Navigator browser and Sun's Java," he said. "These guys could at least run their stuff on the PCs without us having to reverse-engineer their cryptographic locks and the user having to fit new equipment to it."
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Read the whole article here[news.com] (I kinda wonder why CNet didn't place any link to the Xbox-Linux page ... not even to the original open letter).
*update* : I saw they updated their article now and added a link to Xbox-Linux .. hehe , do we have influence on CNet ?
Posted by:: XanTium
February 20 01:48 CEST
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