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To: steve harris who wrote (101627)	4/3/2000 10:41:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1577009

steve, It is such a good idea that it will come to life. The Athlon timetable is quite doable and Linux is ready as always to heap scorn and calumny on MSFT and the game people are indeed in aggravated mode at MSFT. Trouble is will sony be able to control clones? maybe they do not care...they will sell a boatload of games and they will save the OS$ as well as we know that MSFT will charge a fat fee for the X-Game OS should anyone want to make clones of X-Game machines? Bill

To: steve harris who wrote (101627)	4/3/2000 10:51:00 AM
From: Scot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577009

ON24 repeated the ZDnet story. Of course ON24 worships the ground Ashok Kumar walks on, so....... Steve, as you know, ON24 is a joke. They are wrong probably 50% of the time...Kumar interview notwithstanding. Reminds me of the "news" radio station I listen to in the morning. It always seems that the stories I hear while I'm getting ready for work "happen" to be the same ones featured in the Washington Post. This includes all the local and human interest stories as well. What a bunch of idiots. The ZDNET story is clearly an April Fools joke. Again, I'm preaching to the choir here, but there is no Linux "games scene". The open source community are hopping mad at Microsoft's attempt to muscle in on the games scene with the X-Box and have vowed to stop them -- offering their services free to Sony to develop the code for PS3. Working out of a secret unit near Tokyo, a team of Linux coders are believed to have already developed a working beta. -Scot