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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, a
by 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 agoUnfortunately 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 agoI'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.