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Hacker cracks Xbox challenge (News.com)

Posted Apr 2, 2003 4:26 UTC (Wed) by delducra (guest, #10439)
Parent article: Hacker cracks Xbox challenge (News.com)

Oh c'mon...... All of this about "that's not important 'cause your paying for
MS hardware..." is a load of crap. Have we all forgotten the "hacker"
mentality that brought us Linux in the first place. Namely, knowing the
technology well enough to make it do what you want it to do - even
(especially) when it is outside of the design specs? How many of you out
there bashing this person for owning an XBox own DVD players with
embeded decryption technology, when you could have gone out and built a
linux-based media server instead??? Or what about the sparc ports of linux?
Are those developers fools for supporting Sun Microsystems "closed"
hardware?

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Posted Nov 6, 2003 6:26 UTC (Thu) by ucjuk (guest, #16572) [Link]

Just to round off the list with a bit of info: The X-Box is sold as a loss leader for the software. They want everyone to buy one so as to fork out for the games and stop you buying a ps2 or whatever, so they pay for part of the cost of the box, making it a loss (hence loss leader).

This means M$$ pay for you to get a Unix machine.

Hence the appeal for U-Boxes as servers for home networks (put it behind the tv by the cable socket, no need for monitor etc) and at £85 in the UK they are quite reasonable for the job.

Just my (or M$'s) 2 cents,