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Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by CamperBob on Friday November 05, 2010 @05:06PM (#1874926)
Almost sounds like a deliberate troll, doesn't it?
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Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by tptacek on Friday November 05, 2010 @06:59PM (#1875265)
My comment, or the comment I'm responding to? Preemptively: The fact that what I actually believe flies in the face of the conventional wisdom on Hacker News does not make it a trolling comment.
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Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by CamperBob on Friday November 05, 2010 @07:17PM (#1875334)
Microsoft's legal threat.
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Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by tptacek on Friday November 05, 2010 @07:53PM (#1875423)
I think it was dumb of them to pick that fight, but that in the extreme they are invoking, it's not an idle or frivolous threat.
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