"Pitchfork's audience looks at that site like it is the Bible," said one high-level music industry executive. "They might not take too kindly to a Microsoft pop-up on the site or a relationship with such a big corporation."
But Schreiber shot down that rationale. "It wasn't anything political, and I don't want to sell Microsoft or the Zune short," Schreiber said. "But the idea just doesn't make a whole lot of sense for us."There is still hope for Microsoft: they have
I imagine it's sufficiently resistant to economic terrorism (i.e., unauthorised modifications) that doing so would involve a lot more hardware kung-fu than I have.
Then again, I haven't even bought an XBox. Mostly because spending money on a big ugly machine I won't have much practical use for outweighs the momentary pleasure of cocking a snook at Darth Gates' Evil Empire.
You are telling me you are not interested in getting one to install linux on... I know I am