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How MicroSoft murdered Ensemble. In a side note, Elon Musk himself dropped in on my Quake thread from a night ago. Sir - with respect, what are you doing commenting on my puny thread? Go take humanity to Mars! Anyway, Microsoft's purchase of Ensemble (as described yesterday) was great...

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