Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect drivers

Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by caf on Friday November 05, 2010 @10:22PM (#1875716)

How would this be any different to a business based on selling unauthorised printer cartridges/refills? (Serious, not rhetorical, question!)

(All under the assumption that making unauthorised use of the Kinect does not require copying a work that Microsoft owns the copyright to, of course).

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Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by tptacek on Saturday November 06, 2010 @12:34PM (#1877205)

I don't think it is different. What's sleazy about printer cartridges isn't the lock-in, it's the teaser price on the printer made up for with the artificially inflated price of the cartridge.

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Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by caf on Saturday November 06, 2010 @11:28PM (#1878561)

Sure, but are those printer cartridge businesses in potential legal trouble?

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