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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. Re:Streisand effect? by VortexCortex · · Score: 0, Redundant

    “Microsoft will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep Kinect tamper-resistant”

    Would you buy a car that has an inaccessible engine, a dealer padlock on the hood? Do they call it “tampering” when I change my own oil?

    It’s sad that more people don’t stand up for their right to use and modify their own machines however they want. It's a shame that the DMCA is used to prevent us from using & modifying the hardware we purchase. Fear of a legal suit is likely the reason the source code will not be made public...

    Any attempt to lock down or make “tamper-resistant” your hardware should be met with the same outrage you would exhibit if car dealers were to make your car legally serviceable only by the dealer.

    Microsoft car salesman: "No, you may not look under the hood. Touch the engine with a wrench and we'll sue."