Thou shalt have no other Gods before Microsoft, for it is a jealous God. This would seem to be the case with Xbox Live, as news is today coming in of people getting banned from Microsoft's gaming service should the name of The 'Soft's rivals be spoken. Users who have gamertags bearing mention of Linux are being flagged for, hilariously, "inappropriate language." Both gamertags and mottos with any variation of the word Linux in them get blacklisted. I don't know if Microsoft will accept Linux Is Rubbish as a name though. Somebody should find out.
While it's Microsoft's service and I suppose they can do as they wish (their TOS clearly state you can be arbitrarily banned at Microsoft's caprice, almost), I do have to say this is rather silly behaviour, if only because it makes MS look rather threatened. Are we scared of the big bad Linux? That's how it appears if you're as sarcastic as I am. Linux fans are going to have to go elsewhere to share their Operating System love, and do please beware if you're called Mozilla Gorilla ... you could be next.
Holy crap, Mozilla Gorilla would be an awesome Gamertag.
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3:24 PM on 09.04.2007
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Damn Microsoft make me lol at times.
That was almost paranoid of me.
Oh Microsoft, you crazy cats.
Gah, my brain asplode.
And yeah, they suck at banning people for things they should be banned for. My old Halo 2 clan made a bunch of two-month accounts with incredibly racist names and went whoring for bad feedback in game lobbies. All any of them ever got was a two-week ban from using the mic. The names were never once banned.
Props to those that hated M$ before it was cool. Respec.
Actually, that's everywhere.
oh, and this is another reason why i don't like microsoft much.
wonder if stallman has an xbox
Who knows. Maybe they do if you call up costumer service. I would imagine not for racial names, but for something as stupid as this, common.
According to Joel Johnson on BB Gadgets, though, Nintendo, Sony, and Playstation are all allowable.
No word on "Ron Mexico" however.
BTW- His GT was "OsamaforPres08" and he changed it to something very similar and it let him sign on.
Cheers!
I believe I read somewhere Stallman stated he won't buy a computer (consoles are computers, at the core) if it can't run FSF-approved Free Software, so the only system he *might* buy would be a GP2X with Open2X firmware.
I've experienced a weird MS block in the past, when I tried sending a .ogg file to a friend via MSN (pre-Windows Live), and it said the file was "dangerous" or something in that vein, when it was just a music file in an open format... strange. If any of you want to read up on why Microsoft is so scared of Linux and other open OS's, just Google up "Halloween Documents", very interesting read.