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And if anyone had forgotten why open source users hates Microsoft: "Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products. With Kinect, Microsoft built i

And if anyone had forgotten why open source users hates Microsoft: "Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products. With Kinect, Microsoft built in numerous hardware and software safeguards designed to reduce the chances of product tampering. Microsoft will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep Kinect tamper-resistant." Everytime you start to soften to Microsoft and convince yourself "they're not that bad, (Oracle, Apple, Google) is pretty bad too", someone at Microsoft opens their mouth and convinces you that they are indeed the most out of touch.

daeken 16y ago
What hardware company that doesn't release their stuff openly says anything different? Hardware hackers have been running into this attitude for a long time, and it's showing no signs of going away. (This attitude is what pushed me to write http://daeken.com/the-hardware-hacker-manifesto http://daeken.com/the-hardware-hacker-manifesto after being called a 'pirate' for hacking the Emotiv EPOC brain-computer interface.)
- krschultz 16y ago
  Unfortunately that is very true (I worked for Bug Labs, so hopefully did a little good changing it), but I took particular offense to the "law enforcement" passive agressive threat in the Microsoft statement. I 100% agree that if you hack something, the company shouldn't honor the warranty, or let you use it on their services. That is their right, which is why when I modded my Xbox 1 I was fine wtih them banning us from Xbox Live. But I never felt like I was going to go to jail for doing it. I didn't pirate games, so I never thought I could get in trouble for it. Then Microsoft started trying to get people in legal trouble for just modding them, or showing people how to mod them. That was when I got really anti-Microsoft, and I've kind of forgotten that over the last 4 or 5 years. They reminded me today why I used to think they were the most anti-open source company.
  - daeken 16y ago
    I'd go to court over Kinect hacking in a heartbeat. They can't even use the standard anti-piracy argument here, it's simply preventing competition and interoperability. I really don't think MS is dumb enough to try it.

daeken 16y ago

What hardware company that doesn't release their stuff openly says anything different? Hardware hackers have been running into this attitude for a long time, and it's showing no signs of going away. (This attitude is what pushed me to write http://daeken.com/the-hardware-hacker-manifesto http://daeken.com/the-hardware-hacker-manifesto after being called a 'pirate' for hacking the Emotiv EPOC brain-computer interface.)

krschultz 16y ago
Unfortunately that is very true (I worked for Bug Labs, so hopefully did a little good changing it), but I took particular offense to the "law enforcement" passive agressive threat in the Microsoft statement. I 100% agree that if you hack something, the company shouldn't honor the warranty, or let you use it on their services. That is their right, which is why when I modded my Xbox 1 I was fine wtih them banning us from Xbox Live. But I never felt like I was going to go to jail for doing it. I didn't pirate games, so I never thought I could get in trouble for it. Then Microsoft started trying to get people in legal trouble for just modding them, or showing people how to mod them. That was when I got really anti-Microsoft, and I've kind of forgotten that over the last 4 or 5 years. They reminded me today why I used to think they were the most anti-open source company.
- daeken 16y ago
  I'd go to court over Kinect hacking in a heartbeat. They can't even use the standard anti-piracy argument here, it's simply preventing competition and interoperability. I really don't think MS is dumb enough to try it.