Goodbaycola's Blog – January 2016 Archive (1)

Lindows CEO funds Xbox hacking contest

Michael Robertson, CEO of software company Lindows, has revealed himself as the formerly anonymous donor of $200,000 in prize money in a contest to translate the Linux operating system to Microsoft's Xbox video game console.

The revelation was made in a posting earlier this week on the Xbox Linux Project site at SourceForge, a site for collaborative development of opensource software projects. Robertson disclosed his identity as the person…