True Significance
Posted 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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