Infogrames Could Help Ubisoft vs. EA

GamesIndustry.biz iz reporting that in a show of European solidarity publisher Infogrames may assist Ubisoft (with the blessings of the French Government) if EA attempts a hostile takeover of the Prince of Persia developer. From the article: "Speaking to news agency Reuters, Bonnell expressed his hope that Ubisoft will remain independent - and rubbished EA's claim that its recent purchase of almost 20 per cent of the firm's stock was merely an investment." Further details on Greg Costikyan's Blog. All this is follow up to year-end shenanigans from EA.

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Let's Boycott EA

[Anonymous Coward]

All Slashdotters from this day forward should boycott all EA produced software.

European Solidarity?

[Anonymous Coward]

The French government did the same thing when a German pharmaceutical giant tried to take over France's pharma "national champion". Nothing new here, just another case of meddling by France's neo-mercantilist government in order to save French pride- the interest of shareholders and free trade laws be damned...

Re:What do you think?

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn you, now I have to jack off again.

I'm never going to get anything done today.

Re:History in the making...

[Anonymous Coward]

Given that 809,999 of them died bending over, history might say otherwise. 1 is still unaccounted for.

Re:ok, how long

[Anonymous Coward]

One of your country's oldest allies is hestitant about giving you carte blanche to invade other sovereign states and all of a sudden it's open season on France?

No, we hate the French because they're weasels, cowards and opportunistic a**holes who feel the only way to build their country up again is to tear the U.S. down. What other Western country is actively anti-American, and can be expected to oppose the U.S. no matter who controls the government- socialist, communist, Gaullist, National Front crypto-fascist?

Which country's foreign minister poses as champion of international law, yet is really a degenerate Napoleonic power worshipper who still thinks warfare is glorious- as long as it's France that's kicking butts?

Which country was actually going to participate in the invasion of Iraq, thinking it would be a good military training excerise for its troops?

Which country flies into senseless, destructive tantrums every time its national "honor" is threatened, yet has no shame in turning around and begging the help of anti-Western, Izlamic terrorist grous like Hezbollah, pointing out that France is the Izlamicists' most useful dhimmi stooge?

France- always eager to abase itself before power, always ready with a knife in the back for friends.

Re:No context..

[Dirtside]

Before I read any of the linked text, I should know the basics about what's going on, who Ubisoft is, and who Costikyan is.

In the time you spent writing your post, you could have Googled the information you were looking for, rather than wasting everyone's time listening to you whine, and remaining ignorant.

Slashdot stories are not going to suddenly get longer because people like you refuse to put out a little effort.

If you're going to claim to post news articles with information in them

I don't see where the editors claim that the stories posted on Slashdot are comprehensive news articles. The tagline "News for Nerds" is colloquial at best; nobody ever confuses Slashdot with a "real" news site like CNN. Slashdot has always gotten 99% of its stories from user submissions where they link to other websites. Expecting it to change because you're too lazy to hit Google is absurd.