Microsoft Says Kinect Left Open By Design

Posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, 2010 @07:34AM from the always-at-war-with-eurasia dept.

kai_hiwatari writes "Around two week ago when Adafruit announced a bounty for developing an open-source driver for the Kinect, Microsoft made it clear that they didn't condone it. Now Microsoft seems to have realized the potential of their device and has made a U-turn. Alex Kipman, Xbox Director of Incubation, now says that they left the Kinect open by design. Kipman said, 'What has happened is someone wrote an open-source driver for PCs that essentially opens the USB connection, which we didn't protect, by design, and reads the inputs from the sensor.'"

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How else by Dyinobal · 2010-11-20 07:45 · Score: 0, Troll

How else would they get new ideas to steal?
trust us! by Xtifr · 2010-11-20 07:45 · Score: 0, Troll

Yeah, yeah, it was by design! And if you believe that, we've got a nice bridge^H^H^H^H^H^Hoperating system to sell you. :)
Re:Kipman: by wowbagger · 2010-11-20 08:00 · Score: 0, Troll

Wow, those grapes look really sour from down here.
Naww, it's just Monkey Boy channeling Paul Reubens: <voice character="Pee Wee Herman">I meant do to that!<voice>

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