[sarcasm] Yes, I completely agree that the international community should wait like we did in 1994, it really turned out in the best possible way for the Rwandan people in the end, right? [/sarcasm]
They've completely ignored one of the very serious accusations (the one that said that players have the msn contact details of devs - sure they had a petition, but 5 minutes turn around on a petition resulting in the dismissal of a volunteer has to be a speed record in the world of MMORPGs), and actually more or less acknowledged the one about rigging story lines. Please tell me why it matters that someone had contact with the devs? Should the devs be locked up in towers and forced to code without contact with the outside world? If you get so upset about this that you actually bother to make it look bad, you should be rioting against 90 percent of politicians.
And they didn't acknowledge rigging the story lines, mister Fox-News, they admitted discussing rigging.
Not a long time ago (1 year tops) my boss was at a conference of some sorts at MIT, Bill Gates held some sort of speech there, I don't really know the details, but according to my boss he said something along the lines of: "Whenever we (Microsoft) releases some software, it just takes days and the same features are already in some Open Source software", he goes on to "In the future Microsoft will only release open source programms, and make money supporting, rather than releasing software" (I don't know the sentences he used, as my boss only summarised it to me, but that is the general message that my boss recieved (since I wasn't there I don't know if that is the message Bill tried to send)).
If you ask me this seems rather unlikly, but I won't rule out some possibility of a lite Microsoft version of some type, where you only have to pay for support, but the way you can get support on the internet etc, kinda makes this a slightly risky buisneiss (no ide how to spell that in proper english, and it is better with a typo than biznitz) model.
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Yes, I completely agree that the international community should wait like we did in 1994, it really turned out in the best possible way for the Rwandan people in the end, right?
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Not a long time ago (1 year tops) my boss was at a conference of some sorts at MIT, Bill Gates held some sort of speech there, I don't really know the details, but according to my boss he said something along the lines of: "Whenever we (Microsoft) releases some software, it just takes days and the same features are already in some Open Source software", he goes on to "In the future Microsoft will only release open source programms, and make money supporting, rather than releasing software" (I don't know the sentences he used, as my boss only summarised it to me, but that is the general message that my boss recieved (since I wasn't there I don't know if that is the message Bill tried to send)). If you ask me this seems rather unlikly, but I won't rule out some possibility of a lite Microsoft version of some type, where you only have to pay for support, but the way you can get support on the internet etc, kinda makes this a slightly risky buisneiss (no ide how to spell that in proper english, and it is better with a typo than biznitz) model.