LOL: MS Loves Windows Phone Jailbreaker, Gives him a T-shirt

Well well, now this is interesting. As opposed to hunting him down like a dirty dawg, MS rewarded the first accaimed jailbreaker of the Windows 7. They rewarded him with a rather smart t-shirt that read "I was the first to jailbreak Windows Phone 7, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."

[ChristianGamer]

What? No lawsuit?? Lol just kidding

[R2D2]

Trying to steal a page from Sony's lawyers - should have giving him a $1 bill instead.

[Agent Smith]

Holy crap. Is that a XXXXL sized shirt?

[Pain]

"I was the first to jailbreak Windows Phone 7, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."

Ha!! thats funny!!!

[Blaze929]

Geohot got a new car, television interview, and money. I'd be pissed off too.

[Ducky]

The only suit he got was a lawsuit. =/

[Quagmire]

Bazinga!

[Computersaysno]

Wonder what they would give to someone that completely broke open microsoft's DRM and activation system for Windows 7 x64....?

I bet it wouldnt be a Tshirt. Its one thing if a major source of income is not really threatened by jailbreaking, but it would be another totally if it meant hacking could cost microsoft or business partners hundreds of millions of dollars.

Funny? Good PR stunt? Without doubt. Hugely hypocritical? Absolutely.

[Ducky]

Most of their OS sales are to businesses/corporations.

The typical home-user pirating their OS, although still a concern, isn't that big of a deal. They still keep their 'market share' if the majority is using their OS.
As long as the numbers show that Windows is the most common OS, they'll be raking in the cash.

[Millah]

Microsoft is just desperate for some much needed attention to their WP7 platform. Their acting as if they're all pro-dev creativity etc, but in reality they've seen the kinds of publicity iPhone and PS3 jailbreaks have gotten and they want that spotlight on WP7. The difference is that the publicity with the iPhone and PS3 jailbreaks all happened because it was for two extremely popular products.....WP7 not so much.

[dktxx2]

Its probably made of pure lead anyway.

[Thrillhouse]

Hilariously excellent PR on Microsoft's side.

[UP]

A phone is different from a console geniuses.

[NoobSessions]

Still a platform hosted by Microsoft, with active 1st party and 3rd party support; just like the Xbox.

[Kewl_Kat]

Did Microsoft reward those who hacked the 360?

[N311V]

I agree, sneaky but clever ploy by MS given that phone app piracy is very low.

http://gizmodo.com/5477732/...

[UP]

Most Phone App development costs do not meet or exceed Console/PC game development costs. That's like comparing a food shoplifter to a jewel thief.

[dragonelite]

It's legal to jailbreak phones and microsoft contacted them so they could talk and microsoft is proposing a way to let homebrew work but not make pirating apps possible.

[NoobSessions]

OT: Thats pretty funny of MS

[PHOSADRA]

They're doing this BECAUSE Sony is doing the whole anti piracy thing..
They're using it as an opportunity to seem like a "NICE" company that doesn't care what their consumers do and want everyone to be happy...

Thats BS >:0

[badz149]

if they can sue him, they would but they couldn't! after iPhone Jailbreak, DMCA clearly updated their terms and jailbreaking a phone, be it iPhone or MAYBE any other phone is LEGAL!

[DrRichtofen]

I'd wear it.

[8thnightvolley]

MS smart freaking move... might aswell gain good PR with it..loool classic

[Kon]

Good move MS.

[Mottsy]

Smart idk. Good move idk about that either. Either way its a bad thing. since they will loose money either way. they virtually just published their phone is now jail breakable but clever and very funny? Mos Def! A far better action then a lawsuit imo.

[ECM0NEY]

loose? its lose...

[BrianC6234]

Since those phones aren't selling Microsoft probably hopes someone hacking it will get more sales.

[jneul]

seriously these are all jabs at sony, if no-one cant see this they are blind normally ms are anti-hacking and anti-piracy but they are just doing this for attention, also it's never a good thing to reward hackers, i will laugh when it backfires on them

[SpLinT]

its more of a insult than anything. Shows that all time wasted for nothing.

[Shackdaddy836]

Thats a biiig shirt...

He reminds me of Jerry from Subway. IDK why. Face is sorta the same for some reason.

[marichuu]

I think it's a great move by MS.
This was bound to happen no matter what... so why not reward the person who had the time and skills to pull this off before anyone else?
If they took him to court, I'm sure someone else would've tried to jailbreak it sooner or later... there's just no point.

Some of you might say "so what you're saying is that we should not try to stop terrorists around the world?"
Well... It just isn't the same :(

People will be mentioning this event far in the future, which will give MS some respect I believe. IIRC MS didn't even make a bik deal about the Kinect being hacked either... Who knows, maybe they'll go open source sometime in the future :P

Just my random thoughts...

[Masterchef2007]

I believe that microsoft wanted people to hack Kinect on the PC. I am sure you seen many of the tech demos from the hackers and they look a lot more impressive than the kinect on the 360. Free publicity for microsoft and a great way to show the product off.

[Masterchef2007]

wow a TShirt american sized lol

[Goeres]

But will it fit?

[espiritu604]

will it blend?

[Silverwolf]

*sits back and waits to see how to this will back fire*