Hear, hear. It is about time that the Western world drop the ignorant, self-centered egotism. It does nothing to help anyone.
It is hypocritical to sit in the US and complain about censorship in China, when the US government controls the US media, controlling what they are allowed to print, discuss or even bring to people's attention.
Governments abusing the rights of their people, the rights that they themselves gave them is nothing new. Look at the US. Clinton has sex in the office, the nation throws a fit and tries to impeach him. Bush invades a country on false pretenses, outside of the UN laws, and no one says a damned thing.
When will people learn: No one on this planet, as a people, is any better than any other people? Individuals are the statistical outliers that should not color the world's opinion of a people.
From what I have seen and heard, a lot of people are boycotting their sports games that have an exclusive license. Why? Because it is anti-competition, and most gamers I know won't put up with that crap.
Maybe, just maybe, this industry is starting to vote with it's wallet a bit more, and the bigger players are feeling the heat.
1. Red Hat is not abandoning Fedora Core. They had plans to create a nonprofit foundation to run Fedora, but those plans didn't work out.
RTFA. The Fedora Foundation was supposed to be a NPO to "own" patents developed for the technologies that Fedora/Linux/RedHat was wanting to keep "open" for the community. It has NOTHING to do with the OS project itself. Your Fedora Core is perfectly safe and not even affected by this.
The reason Red Hat isn't mentioned by name on CentOS' website anymore is that RH's lawyers called them up and insisted they remove the trademarks. So now whenever Red Hat is mentioned on the website, they refer to it as "a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor."
Understandable.
"RedHat Support, how may I help you?" "Yeah, I'm running CentOS..." "Wait, that is not our product." "What? Don't #%@!$%@ me, buddy, it says so right on their site!!!!" "Well, it's not us, we can't guarantee it, and we certainly aren't going to spend time and money supporting something that isn't tested by our QA teams."
Makes sense to me. Call me crazy.
What if Bungie already has H3 mostly done? Everyone clambored about how short H2 was, how the ending begged for a sequel. What if they just cut it in half, knowing that the new graphics engine was already almost done. Then they re-script the very ending of the first of those two halves, package and ship as H2? H3 may be done. THAT is why Bungie is not concerned or appearing to focus on it.
Or, alternatively, Bungie completed the content and has handed off coding to Microsoft's game devs. They know that they don't own the franchise, so they are working on getting something original rolling once more that THEY OWN. They could be trying to pull a Pixar, kids.
Someone who has an original idea. Open-ended. Amazing. I hope it is successful, but not huge. Because then all they will be able to see is money, and quality will suffer huge.
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Hear, hear. It is about time that the Western world drop the ignorant, self-centered egotism. It does nothing to help anyone.
It is hypocritical to sit in the US and complain about censorship in China, when the US government controls the US media, controlling what they are allowed to print, discuss or even bring to people's attention.
Governments abusing the rights of their people, the rights that they themselves gave them is nothing new. Look at the US. Clinton has sex in the office, the nation throws a fit and tries to impeach him. Bush invades a country on false pretenses, outside of the UN laws, and no one says a damned thing.
When will people learn: No one on this planet, as a people, is any better than any other people? Individuals are the statistical outliers that should not color the world's opinion of a people.
From what I have seen and heard, a lot of people are boycotting their sports games that have an exclusive license. Why? Because it is anti-competition, and most gamers I know won't put up with that crap.
Maybe, just maybe, this industry is starting to vote with it's wallet a bit more, and the bigger players are feeling the heat.
1. Red Hat is not abandoning Fedora Core. They had plans to create a nonprofit foundation to run Fedora, but those plans didn't work out.
RTFA. The Fedora Foundation was supposed to be a NPO to "own" patents developed for the technologies that Fedora/Linux/RedHat was wanting to keep "open" for the community. It has NOTHING to do with the OS project itself. Your Fedora Core is perfectly safe and not even affected by this.
The reason Red Hat isn't mentioned by name on CentOS' website anymore is that RH's lawyers called them up and insisted they remove the trademarks. So now whenever Red Hat is mentioned on the website, they refer to it as "a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor."
Understandable.
"RedHat Support, how may I help you?" "Yeah, I'm running CentOS..." "Wait, that is not our product." "What? Don't #%@!$%@ me, buddy, it says so right on their site!!!!" "Well, it's not us, we can't guarantee it, and we certainly aren't going to spend time and money supporting something that isn't tested by our QA teams."
Makes sense to me. Call me crazy.
What if Bungie already has H3 mostly done? Everyone clambored about how short H2 was, how the ending begged for a sequel. What if they just cut it in half, knowing that the new graphics engine was already almost done. Then they re-script the very ending of the first of those two halves, package and ship as H2? H3 may be done. THAT is why Bungie is not concerned or appearing to focus on it. Or, alternatively, Bungie completed the content and has handed off coding to Microsoft's game devs. They know that they don't own the franchise, so they are working on getting something original rolling once more that THEY OWN. They could be trying to pull a Pixar, kids.
Someone who has an original idea. Open-ended. Amazing. I hope it is successful, but not huge. Because then all they will be able to see is money, and quality will suffer huge.