-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/17/2010 08:09 AM, Torben Dannhauer wrote: > Hello Dimi, > > the driver ist NOT provided by Microsoft, but by Primesense, the producer > > In my opinion Microsofts attitude towards the Kinect drivers is just a good > face to the matters. Kinect was hacked, and they had to decide whether they > pursue the modifications or to allow them and open Kinect for further usage > beyond XBox. > I personally was very surprised that the decided to do the latter - Microsoft > isn't an example of good open source cooperation for me.
Well, they didn't have much choice there - there are no laws that forbid you with using your controller on another OS and since no copyright was broken, they couldn't use something like the American DMCA or similar to quash the efforts like they routinely do with the various "modchip" sellers/developers. I guess they realized they have no legal leg to stand on and backed down to save their face. Jan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mandriva - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFNC8/An11XseNj94gRAkvlAJ4iCLyk6r1CWWxkfcufjKeNnTplJQCeKoF1 oSq3fdzoSgGjKWrvautaaDo= =7rBo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
