Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Nintendo and Microsoft unveil indie games services
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Microsoft, playing to its traditional strengths in software development for
>| personal computers, began offering game production tools to amateurs and
>| hobbyists about 18 months ago under an initiative dubbed "XNA."
> `----
>
> http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=nintendo-and-microsoft-un
>
> XBLA's leaders quit the company (see links below) and many others quit the
> company rather secretly.
>
> Free labour again. Same with Silverlight and students. They want people to
> carry anti-Linux water for them. And they ban free content for the XBox (see
> below), so it's all for Microsoft, not the exploited
> developers^Hdevelopers^Hdevelopers.
>
Microsoft's strengths have been in lock-in, proprietary formats,
destroying the competition through any possible means; they have never
been all that strong in development, in fact, pretty much everything of
worth has been bought-in.
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