[FYI] Ballmer baulks at Oz Xbox chippers charter

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/27723.html

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Ballmer baulks at Oz Xbox chippers charter  

By John Lettice  

Posted: 22/10/2002 at 10:05 GMT  

Microsoft's efforts so far to obstruct Xbox mod chips have been 
relatively trivial, and simple for the modders to circumvent. The 
most recent redesign, for example, was dealt with inside a week. But 
on his recent Australian adventure Microsoft president Steve Ballmer 
dispensed one of the clearest policy statements on Xbox so far - 
Microsoft intends Xbox to be a closed system and to stay that way, 
and will use both technical and legal avenues to protect it.  

[...]

Linux? No, no matter how heroic the team from the Xbox Linux Project 
is, Microsoft is not  going to lose huge swathes of revenue because 
all the purchasers run Linux instead and don't buy any games. Its 
Xbox software licensing regime will  be disrupted (as is the case 
already for many players in the entertainment business) if it becomes 
less possible or impossible to divvy up licences by territory and 
police it via regionalisation, but one does wonder why the law should 
have to shore up something as daft and artificial as regionalisation. 
 
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