Hackers Happily Hacking The 360

m3lt writes "Hackers have purchased the XBox 360 so they will have generation 1 models, which are more prone to security flaws. At hackaday there is an article about Xbox 360 First Impressions. More importantly though, it looks as if homebrew browsers are already showing up for the Xbox 360." Additionally, geekylinuxkid writes "It looks like another bounty is being offered for linux on a console. This time it is for the xbox 360 and is provided by the guys at free360.org. Join in, donate, and contribute to the community."

Comments

Re:Early adoption

[MorgyTheMole]

Well, all of the FAST emulators tend to use assembly and have assembly cores. However, there are plenty of emulators for most systems out there with all C or C++ cores. I think that the 360 should run most of these emulators just fine, given it's speed. What will be more interesting to see is how homebrew apps try to take advantage of the ability to run six 3.2 Ghz threads at once.

Isn't Homebrew Encouraged?

[Deathlizard]

Maybe I'm missing something, but I thought that this was the entire reason MS made the Xbox Marketplace, So that independent Dev's could make a game/program and sell it over Xbox live.

What's stopping any Dev from making a NES emulator for example, and selling it on the marketplace for 100 points? Is there restrictions on what you can and cannot sell on the marketplace?

I know linux is a different story, since it's an OS replacement, but I don't see any reason why the Mozilla Foundation for example couldn't make a 360 port of Firefox and sell it for the points equivalent of $0.25 over Xbox Live.