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Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by tptacek on Saturday November 06, 2010 @01:24AM (#1876197)
Microsoft doesn't have to and won't rely on its own internal engineers if it decides to care enough about Kinect to stop this kind of thing.
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Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by nitrogen on Saturday November 06, 2010 @03:54AM (#1876440)
That's why I added the final clause of item 4, "and using the law to make it so is unethical." I don't blame you if you didn't make it that far with the botched formatting. It's also worth noting that I'm commenting on how I believe things should be, not how they are. "Might makes right" currently has hackers ~= Microsoft, but Microsoft+lawyers+lobbyists >> hackers.
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Re:Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect... by tptacek on Saturday November 06, 2010 @12:36PM (#1877209)
No, I meant, Microsoft will contract to teams of outside engineers who have made this problem their life's work.
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