Microsoft backpedals on its previous tough talk to potential Kinect hacker, modders and driver creators. [NPR via Adafruit via Boing Boing]
Microsoft backpedals on its previous tough talk to potential Kinect hacker, modders and driver creators. [NPR via Adafruit via Boing Boing]
James Mac
Monday, November 22, 2010 at 11:09 AMNot that surprising, MS is probably just going to copy and innovate on the ideas the hackers put into action.
Probablly have a team mimicing each one as we speak.
GaDgeT
Monday, November 22, 2010 at 11:21 AMNot surprising at all…. as I seem to recall, MS stole the Xbox media center hack, then released MCE2005, still part of Win7 Media Center. Its the hackers that end up improving the hardware and software that MS releases
Craig
Monday, November 22, 2010 at 12:19 PMMicrosoft does more as a company to support 3rd party developers than any other tech company, bar none.
These guys may very well end up with big cheques in their pockets or even positions at Microsoft.
A great example is sysinternals – the best 3rd party tools ever designed for windows, the creator is now a Technical Fellow at Microsoft (Highest technical position possible)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Russinovich
James Mac
Monday, November 22, 2010 at 1:13 PMOr the guy from youtube who did all that stuff with the wii… ms picked him up to work on kinect.
G
Monday, November 22, 2010 at 1:52 PMyet we still see the usual MS bashers shooting their mouthes off before knowing MS’s history with such people…
Mordecai
Monday, November 22, 2010 at 8:05 PMThats because its “kool” to bash “M$” you know because they are the bad guys and all that other stuff ..