__/ [ [H]omer ] on Monday 26 February 2007 22:10 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that B Gruff spake thusly:
>> My word:-
>>
>> "Microsoft lawyers who believed they'd buried the most embarrassing
>> collection of documents about the company's murky past for good, without
>> any one noticing, were in for a surprise this weekend. The archive has
>> become a mainstay of the Bittorrent P2P file sharing networks."
>>
>> "A healthy 20+ seeds have been distributing the files for the past few
>> days, at any one time."
>>
>> (big snip)
>>
>> "The material needs to find a home in a academic institution, which has
>> the time to curate it, check for completeness, and put the material in
>> context. And ideally this should be in a region beyond US jurisdiction -
>> if there are any such places this side of Jupiter. (Perhaps the Gates
>> Foundation can recommend somewhere)"
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/26/microsoft_archive_goes_torrent/
>
> Seeeeeeeeeeeeeed!!!
Free open source games!!! And news just in:
Game profitability 'under threat'
"Rising development costs and small user bases mean games developers are
unlikely to make a profit on new titles until 2008, according to a report."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6397527.stm
OSS will do to the gaming industry what it is already doing to S/W. And there
will be great amounts of reuse. Just look at all the Quake 'spinoffs'.
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