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Submission + - Quebec says 'non' to English-only video games (cnet.com) 1

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daveofdoom

on Friday April 03, 2009 @06:40PM

daveofdoom writes: "The French Canadian government of Quebec is saying non to English-only video games if French versions are available. This is a ridiculous rule as game companies can simply stop creating French versions of games to bypass this ridiculous law."

Submission + - Microsoft "Open Value Subscription" Scam (cnet.com)

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daveofdoom

on Monday January 07, 2008 @12:43PM

daveofdoom writes: "Microsoft Open Value Subscription is none of the above

This week Microsoft launched a SMB program that contains the words "open", "value" and "subscription", none of which are common to Microsoft products, culture, or marketing.

Digging in a bit I found myself confused not only by what the program portends to be but why it would be called it "Open Value Subscription" unless they were hoping to leverage buzzwords and concepts related to open source and SaaS (software as a service). It's such lame and dishonest branding the marketing group should be ashamed."

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