Microsoft Threatening to Pull Xbox Out of Australia
Posted by talleyrand on Thursday, October 17 2002

Due to the aquittal of a Sydney man charged with selling mod chips for the PS2 Microsoft's Steve Ballmer says, "Given the way the economic model works, and that is a subsidy followed, essentially, by fees for every piece of software sold, our licence framework has to do that," Mr Ballmer said. "If there are aspects that are not allowed, it would encourage us to require a change in the legal framework. Otherwise, it wouldn't make economic sense."