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True SignificanceTrue SignificancePosted Apr 1, 2003 16:48 UTC (Tue) by ncm (subscriber, #165)In reply to: Hacker cracks Xbox challenge (News.com) by beejaybee Parent article: Hacker cracks Xbox challenge (News.com) The true significance of this event (besides hack value for the participants) is that all those Xboxes received as gifts can be turned into real computers. Useless hardware has been turned into useful hardware. Captive hardware has been freed. There would never be any point in buying an Xbox to run Linux on. Rather, when there's already an Xbox lying around, now it has potential as a Free Software engine. "Never seen Linux? I'll show you what it looks like. Here, let's just plug this into your Xbox, and you'll see!" Or, "You don't have a computer? Never mind, look, you have an Xbox. We'll just plug this in and go." Or, "I wish I could afford to get a computer. All I have is this dumb Xbox. Maybe I can make something out of it?"
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