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Microsoft buys out Rare, Inc.
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 5:41 pm
by phice
Rare, Inc. (The makes of Perfect Dark, Golden Eye), has been bought out by the XBox creator, Microsoft. Just for 300+ Million, Rare is now officially in association with Microsoft.
I wonder what this means for the next-next gen consoles from Nintendo? I highly doubt there will be a next nintendo system.
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2002 8:56 am
by MattF
Rare aren't the only people who make Nintendo games, but they are - were - one of the best. It's a sad day indeed...
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2002 11:08 am
by Takuma
What's wrong with Microsoft people?
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2002 12:37 pm
by Coco
um
*tries not to cuss*
well they are money grabbing thieves with no concept of business ethics... the sale is all that matters...
besides teh fact that they have a habit of churning out poor quality software (tho it seems that it might have started improving some, its still over priced)
not to mention concepts like copyrighting etc
i could continue but i bore too easily
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2002 1:41 pm
by twigletmac
Takuma wrote:What's wrong with Microsoft people?
That's kind of a funny thing to hear on a forum which deals mainly with an opensource piece of software...
My hubbie is currently getting his PGCE (teaching cert) in IT - apparently it's all based around Microsoft technology (and the web design bit is supposed to be taught on FrontPage) so it's hardly surprising that a kid going to school in this country would say that. Open source software is not mentioned at all in the curriculum (at least not that he's found and he's been looking

).
Mac
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2002 5:26 pm
by phice
I think it's a great thing. Now Perfect Dark 2 will be only.

I can't wait.
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2002 6:35 pm
by hob_goblin
Coco wrote:um
*tries not to cuss*
well they are money grabbing thieves with no concept of business ethics... the sale is all that matters...
besides teh fact that they have a habit of churning out poor quality software (tho it seems that it might have started improving some, its still over priced)
not to mention concepts like copyrighting etc
i could continue but i bore too easily
okay, write better software, write better languages, write better OS's, write more compatible applications. no, i don't see it happening.
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2002 7:38 pm
by phice
Microsofts Office XP is very nice. That + Windows 2000 are the best things to come out of Microsoft. Well, of course, after XBox and Notepad/Paint.

Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 8:15 am
by llimllib
hob_goblin: I don't understand your post. Are you saying that Microsoft has produced the best OSs to date [Mac OS X vs BSOD], the best compiler to date [intel, gcc vs vis studio], and the most open formats to date [try writing a program to handle word files - I dare you.]?
No, instead Microsoft writes solutions which attempt to lock out all others from interoperation and lock the customer into an upgrade cycle where he has no choice but to upgrade unnecessarily. Furthermore, they release only partial and incorrect information about how to use their buggy closed standards.
As an example, Office XP's file format could certainly be made backwards compatible with MS's earlier office suites. However, changing the file format means that anyone who wants to read Office XP files from another person needs Office XP (and don't tell me that you can save it in older formats. I bet you're gonna call up your client or your boss and say "hey, please save that file in another format because I'm too cheap to buy Office XP"). Therefore, the customer, who doesn't know about OpenOffice.org, who is unable to download a patch to office 2000 allowing him to read Office XP files because it doesn't exist, is forced to spend $450 on a new copy of Word. This practice is unfair, unneccesary, and contrary to phice's opinion (sorry phice), not "very nice" at all.
I hope I misinterpereted that you were saying that Microsoft writes the best software, and I have no intention of flaming (I just feel very strongly about this). So, exactly what is it you don't see happening, and why?
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 9:04 am
by Coco
i think he was trying to tell me to do better myself

what can i say, ive got office xp and win xp, and i have never run a linux/unix installation for more than a day...
as far as im concerned, its easy to use... sure it sucks, but thats life
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 10:03 am
by mydimension
i for one hateM$ but i also realize that i will never be ride of there proprietary {STUFF} (at least not for the time being). i suggest you read this :
http://www.euronet.nl/users/frankvw/IhateMS.html I found it very informative reading. enjoy
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 10:54 am
by phice
http://mslinux.org/ - Looks like some illegal copyright issues.
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 1:29 pm
by Coco
wow ONLY $250 for linux.
yeah like thats gonna work, when i can get it for free...
woulda thought that linux was a registered name... and that the registree only allows open source developers free use of it
but then i guess itll just get re-released as MS Lunchbox
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 2:34 pm
by twigletmac
I like the quotes on the side:
Linus Torvalds wrote:"They want me to be a whore!"
Mac
Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 4:59 pm
by MattF
Microsoft's licences are very restricitve, like if you spend £250 on an operating system you can only have 10 things connected to it at once.
Another thing I noticed is that they randomly alternative between the spelling "lincense" and "licence" throughout web pages and documents
