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Motorola Says eFuse Doesn't Permanently Brick Phones

Posted by timothy on Friday July 16, 2010 @05:48PM from the too-little-distinction-for-my-taste dept.

radicalpi writes "Motorola has responded to claims that eFuse is designed to brick your device if you attempt to mod it or install unauthorized bootloaders. Yes, the device will still not operate with unauthorized software, but it will only go into recovery mode until you reinstall the authorized software. According to Motorola: 'If a device attempts to boot with unapproved software, it will go into recovery mode, and can re-boot once approved software is re-installed.'"

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Re:Thanks for the clarification Motorola, by Barrinmw · 2010-07-16 18:02 · Score: 5, Interesting

Couldn't this be some sort of unfair business practices? I mean, if Microsoft made it so that only Microsoft approved programs could run on windows, they would be sued in a heart beat, what makes this different?