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Wow. So Microsoft finally sent out a cease and desist letter to the Halogen RTS team. I’ve been watching and waiting for this mod for literally 2 years. It’s a nasty body blow and to think, I just bought Zero Hour and Generals three days ago specifically for the mod. We all know what happens now, Microsoft sits on the idea for a few years and never does anything with it. Their goal was just to make sure the rest of us couldn’t enjoy it. They are totally within their rights to do that (though I think the horrendous copyright laws we have in this country should allow this kind of thing to go on when A. The makes derive no profit and B. When the parent company knows and has known for years and has done nothing) but it hurts, it hurts as bad as when the Chrono Trigger PSX fan project was shut down.

I know I’m with them on Net Neutrality but as soon as that’s over it’s back in the Firefox/Some-Other-Operating-System trenches.

You know, if there were any justice in this world Microsoft would hire the Halogen team and they would simply switch to working on the Halogen game for Microsoft. They clearly had the skills and the love to do it and being young they’d work cheap. But no, good will means nothing.