PS3 Hacker Raised All the Legal Funds Needed to Beat Sony in a Weekend
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PS3 Hacker Raised All the Legal Funds Needed to Beat Sony in a Weekend
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#2Excellent, I was wondering how his fund raising was doing. Geohot has given a lot of himself to the community and it's heartwarming to see the community respond with support in his time of need.
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#3Meanwhile, back in Redmond, Microsoft (!) has opened the Kinect to 3rd party developers.
I doubt this was done to deliberately underscore the galactic idiocy of their chief rival. Still, the contrast between the two approaches is pretty astonishing.
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#4This is great news. I really hope he gets a very good defense.
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#5I'm surprised it took that long. Sony seem to have a magical Streisand effect button somewhere that gets triggered for insane reasons. Remember the BMI rootkit scandal, and the subsequent reaction? The AIBO case referenced is another example of Sony's auto-Streisand function in the legal team.
The best part of all of this is that Sony's legal team have very clearly not properly considered the implications of him winning the case. They thought they could just bully him out of it by making it cost too much to defend. If the case is settled in his favour then there are massive ramifications for jailbreaks across the board.
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#6Meanwhile, back in Redmond, Microsoft (!) has opened the Kinect to 3rd party developers. I doubt this was done to deliberately underscore the galactic idiocy of their chief rival. Still, the contrast between the two approaches is pretty astonishing.
Microsoft's new 'hacker-friendly' approach is refreshing, but I'll be interested to see how long it lasts or how deep it goes. It's a great way to curry favor with developers, which is critically important if WP7 is to be a success, but when push comes to shove I have a sneaking suspicion we'll see the old Microsoft take over.
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#7Here's a direct link to geohot's blog posting: http://geohotgotsued.blogspot.com/2011/02/first-round-of-don...
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#8Meanwhile, back in Redmond, Microsoft (!) has opened the Kinect to 3rd party developers. I doubt this was done to deliberately underscore the galactic idiocy of their chief rival. Still, the contrast between the two approaches is pretty astonishing.
A company supporting their involved, early adopting developer base? What?
In all seriousness, its a huge marketing backfire for Sony to act in this manner, and a huge plus for Microsoft in it's respective choice. I understand the "magic black box" theory of product development as it referes to the 99% of the population that doesn't mod, but that 1% is a vital asset who's influence far exceeds their numbers.
These two populations are inherently different, and should be treated as such. It would be a bad marketing move in this day and age to force typical users to hack, and its an equally bad move to force hacker users to follow suit.
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#9Meanwhile, back in Redmond, Microsoft (!) has opened the Kinect to 3rd party developers. I doubt this was done to deliberately underscore the galactic idiocy of their chief rival. Still, the contrast between the two approaches is pretty astonishing.
Yeah, their handling of the Kinect has been unexpectedly good. And it really does stand in stark contrast to Sony's actions.
Re: PS3 Hacker Raised All the Legal Funds Needed to Beat Sony in a Weekend
#10Meanwhile, back in Redmond, Microsoft (!) has opened the Kinect to 3rd party developers. I doubt this was done to deliberately underscore the galactic idiocy of their chief rival. Still, the contrast between the two approaches is pretty astonishing.
Microsoft's new 'hacker-friendly' approach is refreshing, but I'll be interested to see how long it lasts or how deep it goes. It's a great way to curry favor with developers, which is critically important if WP7 is to be a success, but when push comes to shove I have a sneaking suspicion we'll see the old Microsoft take over.
For a recent example:
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/11/03/xbox-live-indie-games-move...
(They did end up fixing it a little later, though.)