Comments on: Eye on Microsoft: Feeling the Heat (and Not Just Because It’s Summer) http://techrights.org/2008/08/23/feeling-the-heat-at-microsoft/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: mpz http://techrights.org/2008/08/23/feeling-the-heat-at-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-20229 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:10:07 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/23/feeling-the-heat-at-microsoft/#comment-20229 At least miggy wont have far to go to visit MS ;-) (although I doubt it would have any engineering there).

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=d&saddr=8+Cambridge+Ctr,+Cambridge,+MA+02142,+United+States+(Novell+Inc)&daddr=1+Memorial+Dr,+Cambridge,+MA+02142,+USA&hl=en&geocode=16302545953147879330,42.364448,-71.088612&mra=ls&dirflg=w&sll=42.362835,-71.084305&sspn=0.008007,0.015814&ie=UTF8&z=16

]]> By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2008/08/23/feeling-the-heat-at-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-20193 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:49:13 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/08/23/feeling-the-heat-at-microsoft/#comment-20193 Calling it the worst performing console doesn’t quite do it justice. Look at the figures:
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20201/532/

It’s a distant 6th place behind even PS2 with around 30% of the sales that PS2 has, about 16% of what PS3 is getting and about 5% of the Wii’s volume.

It’s not intended to be a console, but a test bed for DRM on commodity hardware lined up for future updates and versions of MS products. It’s also been a fire hazard and the recall was more a PR exercise that prolonged the danger by misdirecting attention away from the cause of the fires. So anyone using it is not just hurting themselves, and not just those living near by, but anyone interested in keeping DRM where it belongs.

Debian, Fedora 8, Gentoo, OpenSuSE, YellowDog and Ubuntu can be run on the PlayStation 3. Ports for the Wii are on their way. If you know where to order, you can even get PS3 *pre-loaded* with Linux.

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