Spencer said Digium’s approach is that financial sustainability will be reached through developing whole, packaged products–like phone systems–that don’t take a lot of Linux know-how to be created.

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The mole’s take….Who cares! Open soruce is not going to take over. If anything it will augment the closed source model and it will drive innovation in competing products, but it’s just another approach to solving a problem, not a solution in itself.

Stop The Presses!!!! I have news that is going to shock the world! I’ve just recieved word from a very reliable source that the next gen iPod is going to use a portable fuel cell powered by human feces. Actually, it’s a brand new microreactor that can run on most kinds of animal feces. (more…)

Behold! It is Frogger. IN HD!!!!!!!

Wait, no. Bad idea. BAD BAD BAD idea. Frogger was never meant to be played in HD, so why do I play it in HD? Because it’s on the Xbox 360 and thus I have a problem. The frogger that was relaeased for the XBLA is a disgrace in HD. They developers didn’t do us the kindness of stretching the video width a bit, so unfortounately about half of the screen is used to play the game. It sucks a lot. (more…)

I’ve mentioned it before, but it bears repeating. UMD is a cool format from Sony that didn’t need to exist and frankly is a waste of shelf space. Target and other major retailers seem to be catching on to that fact and are axing UMD. I think this is a great move for everybody including Sony. (more…)

Yesterday Microsoft annouced XBLA Wednesdays where new games would be launched every Wednesday for the rest of the summer. Not only that, but they are finally releasing Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting! I don’t know about you, but I’m super excited about this. It’s great! (more…)