Sony granted temporary restraining order and impoundment against GeoHotz

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thranx said:

The more i read of geohot the more i like him. Seems to me he is ready to make a stand and I for hope he and consumers win.

"Note to Sony:
It’s apparent you don’t care about your reputation with consumers, and I can almost understand your point there.
Few people consider buying a TV or laptop a moral choice, and the consumer base is quite large.
But talented developers are in much shorter supply, and take it from one personally, who you choose to code for is much more of a moral choice.
The programmers you will one day be looking to hire are the ones reading the tech news sites right now.
And they will remember."

Geohot

 

And again, this is not about piracy.

IMO, this sounds presumptuous. This guy is hurting legitimate talented developers by helping other people to steal their work, and he dares to speak about morals? He can't be naive enough to think that nobody would use his info to steal software. Morally, he should've kept the info to himself, or better yet, done something more productive with his talents. Sony has proven to be a great supporter of legitimate developers with their trust in smaller companies and ideas that no other publisher would believe in, and this guy is only hurting that.