MS Employees Debate Mod Chips

[Xcalibur]

this is intresting

lol

[l Zero Fox l]

Wow just a few nights ago I had a dream that the Xbox Portable was OSS for anybody... with the limitation of piracy... Seriously I did... Weird

[mr_nick666]

Bill's as much a geek as the rest of us. His geek instincts temporarily overcame his business sense. He'll downplay the quote, then go on to speak against modding in general later.

I'm sure he thought a linux was kind of cool until it started eating away at his server software profits.

Lol! True words if ever I heard them... Bill Gates IS just a geek... He doesnt work because he needs the money he likes what he does (and who wouldnt like playing with all the latest technology and gadgets!???)

[MaxSMoke]

Thank God at least one CEO is minorly interested in Homebrew. As far as most companies, like *SONY* are concerned, hacking is bad, no matter what.

Micro$oft should open up their on-line game market thing to a selection of free and experimental software that users can use "At Your Own Risk". Then they could wash their hands of responsibility for what Homebrew authors do, and yet still encourage it.

You see it's all "Value-Added". It makes the console worth more to the end consumer. Homebrew games don't discourage user game purchases, but in fact encourage interest in a game platform. I can attest to this personally, as I would never have bought most of the 30+ PSP games I own if it wasn't for Homebrew keeping my interest in my PSP.

The release of the DS Lite has renewed my interest in the DS platform, and I've purchased some new games. But already, I'm losing interest. And with the release of Dev Hook, I'm now totally absorbed into my PSP game and in the market for new games. (now that I can play them on my 1.5 firmware!) Unless Sony locks down the firmware again to 2.8 with all future games, I'm going to be spending alot more money in the near future on my PSP.

You see, the more interest people have in a console, the more money it makes. That's the bottom line. You don't buy games for consoles that collect dust, period. I'm sure everybody can agree on that.

[PeterM]

"Micro$oft"! Hahaha! Did you see? He used a dollar sign instead of an S! That's fantastic!

That joke's never gonna get old!

[BlackJack23]

Yes it is

I guess thats the concept on which all business takes place.

Anyway, I hope Bill realises the potential of homebrew on the XBOX and shows the world how homebrew can actually help hardware sales by not affecting software sales.

[mike03$$$]

maybe a working windows xp

[StealthCP]

WELL...

Bill Gates just stands for one of the most sucessful businessmen on the planet. You don't have to like him, or hug Windows, but you have to respect that it took a bit of wit to become the world's richest man...

Microsoft are a sucessful company that make lots of money. They don't have to be good... All that matters to the majority of businesses is profit. Nothing else. And Microsoft are going the right way about it. Selling a less functional, duly boring Operating System for an unacceptable amount of money, but people still buy it because... everyone else has it.

It's a vicious circle which will only end in 2018.

[pkmaximum]

Hmmmm just because Bill Gates though agrees to X-Box homebrew does not necissarrily mean that he is going to allow x-box homebrew, after all how much will SONY, NINTENDO,SEGA appreciate it if microsoft consul is running all their systems! Hmm I think there is going to be a catch to all this wich might not be bad....but Idk its best to wait and see what happens I suppose because many microsoft developers are apparently not so happy with the x-box homebrew scene D:

[Cooe14]

Hmmmm just because Bill Gates though agrees to X-Box homebrew does not necissarrily mean that he is going to allow x-box homebrew, after all how much will SONY, NINTENDO,SEGA appreciate it if microsoft consul is running all their systems! Hmm I think there is going to be a catch to all this wich might not be bad....but Idk its best to wait and see what happens I suppose because many microsoft developers are apparently not so happy with the x-box homebrew scene D:

Microsoft isn't responsible for what people create for their system. This is why people haven't sued Microsoft for having emulators be able to run on windows, but have rather sued the people who make the emulators (i.e. Sony vs. Bleem).