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Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by PostOnce on Friday November 05, 2010 @05:03PM (#1874916)
Do you not see the difference between pirating a game and pirating cellphone service? One is easier to detect and cancel out on the provider's end.
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Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by tptacek on Friday November 05, 2010 @07:02PM (#1875280)
(a) No.

(b) Limor isn't putting a bounty on pirating a game. She's putting a bounty on forced interoperability with a hostile proprietary peripheral. The bounty is great (even though I think "her team" will lose). I think it's kind of insulting to compare it to pirating games, which is indefensible.

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