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Geohot Joins Facebook As Product Developer
Numerous sources are reporting that famed iPhone and PlayStation hacker George Hotz, better known as Geohot, has taken a job at Facebook in product development; Make Magazine and others report that he'll be working on iOS apps.
Doing what you love, vs. doing what you love and getting paid for it.
Gee. What a hard choice to make.
Interpretation 1:
Change the system from inside. Nothing changes without a decision from someone inside, and the easiest way to get that is to get a man inside.
Interpretation 2:
Facebook pretty much allows friends to communicate with eachother. It's mundane, and looks pointless outside of a particular circle of friends. But it is the democratazation of communication, man.
Interpretation 3:
"Boy that's a big bag of cash."
The ______ Agenda
Well, I'd imagine he has quite a bit of lawyer bills to pay right now so a good paying job is probably a good idea for him. I don't see how you would think it equates to working for Sony. Facebook didn't take him to court.
They're saying that he is going to be working on the iOS app, so at least he is doing something he knows. After thinking about it, I'm surprised something like this didn't happen sooner. He knows iOS pretty well, it only makes sense that he would get a job somewhere making apps for it, and Facebook is one of the bigger companies with a more hacker friendly attitude.
What Sony should've done if they had a working brain left anywhere outside their legal department. What does that say about an innovating company when its best minds are on the floor marked Legal?
Probably no one. That's why he has the luxury of being judgmental.
Perhaps I'm trolling, perhaps I'm not.
I'm a PS3 owner and I thank Geohot for all his work on the platform. Sony can pretty much rot in hell for all I care after the stunts they pulled with regards to the PS3.
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