Johnny Lee was working for Microsoft when he personally funded the $3000 bounty for open source Kinect drivers. I know we're all probably quite familiar with wh

Johnny Lee was working for Microsoft when he personally funded the $3000 bounty for open source Kinect drivers. I know we're all probably quite familiar with who he is at this point, but if you're not I'd suggest poking around his projects page on that site. Such a cool geek rags to youtube "riches" story there. I know I was disappointed when he took the Microsoft job and suddenly all the cool Wiimote hacks stopped showing up. The fact that he had to resort to the means he did to get Microsoft to play nice with the hobbyist community probably partially explains why he left Microsoft, at least that seems to be implied from his posts about it.