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Strong Contender Already For Adafruit's Kinect Challenge

Posted by Soulskill on from the wave-your-hands-in-the-air dept.

sammyF70 writes "Adafruit's bounty on open source drivers for Microsoft's Kinect may have been already won. Someone called 'KinectMan2' has posted videos of Kinect's output as seen on Windows 7 to YouTube. That was fast. Hopefully Linux drivers are coming soon." A few more details are available on a forum post the man made. Adafruit said the bounty could be his if he posts the source code, and they also upped the reward to $3,000 in response to another silly statement from Microsoft.

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  1. hey, Adafruit! by FuckingNickName · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Stop being an attention whoring second rate electronics kit seller for third rate geeks and build your own damn hardware. You have a moderately bright staff and you're wasting resources on tacky PR.

    Stallman's had it right from the start: unless you must, don't tie yourself into something someone else has built and doesn't want to share. This applies as much for hardware, protocols and interfaces as for code proper.