| thismeintiel said: And Sony is still offering those features at $249 now, as well as the dozens of features they have added for free. And yes, the minority do not matter if they harm the majority of purchaser's experience. What I find funny is people who are upset because they ended up being wrong. Many Sony haters were speaking of this case, saying Sony will have their asses handed to them. What happened? Geohot knew he had no case, so he settled with Sony. And now the class action lawsuit was thrown out. Sony won. I guess some people can't handle those facts. |
No offense, but you don't know what you are talking about. This argument has been made several dozen times on this forum. The anti-Geohot people are all under the illogical premise that Sony wanted to spend millions to stop thig guy from ever hacking a Sony product again. Sure, that is exactly what they wanted to do... Your same flimsy argument can be made against your point to. If Sony knew he didn't have a case then why did they settle? Why not just bury the guy as an example. Sony is a giant multi billion dollar company. Who has a history of throwing it's weight on smaller companies till they can't handle the court costs... Quite honestly, yes. I'm sure that if Geohot had stayed in he would have lost just to the sheer fact that he would run out of money soon and have had to fire his lawyers... 5 good lawyers... lets say $100 a piece an hour... It's not known how much he raised but lets be liberal and say $50,000. That would buy him 100 hours. And that's being conservative with the lawyer price and liberal with how much he raised.
Edit: Not to mention that when the trial ended he had less than $10,000 remaining
