When Mark Whitten, General Manager of Microsoft's Xbox LIVE, spoke at today's Streaming Media West 2009, he was asked about the ability to Xbox community to legally hack an Xbox.
"I am going to agree with you but in a slightly different way," Whitten said to the questioner who identified himself as a Linux user that wanted to get 'under the hood' and change things. "The community should be able to change the experience, but it may not be people writing lines of source code. The ability to share experiences and change things such as vehicles or levels is already in place on various gaming platforms."
"I believe that consistency and simplicity are very important," Whitten continued, "which doesn't mean heavy-handed dev control, but does mean we need to start with the 'mom' button instead of the 'hacker' button."
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