Microsoft: 'XDA-Developers illegal, but we do not deal with'
Microsoft will not send somma ties to sites like XDA-Developers, which custom ROMs for Windows phones offer. Sites ROMs of Windows Mobile 6.5 last week received a summons, but that was a hoax.
Addressing sites like XDA-Developers is not a matter for Microsoft, says Maarten Sonneveld Microsoft Netherlands Tweakers.net. "What is happening there, adjusting roms is illegal. They go to get the intellectual property of others." Microsoft does not want the sites to be addressed. "This intellectual property is not with us. The ROMs are owned by manufacturers or providers, if the branded versions. We supply only the OS."
The largest manufacturer of Windows Mobile devices, HTC has no plans for the sites from the air go out. "What happens there may not", says HTC Benelux director Mark Moons. "But XDA-Developers is the largest and most active community of Windows Mobile developers. We can not live with 'em and we can not live without' em."
Last week was an end to the tolerance of the Windows Mobile communities. One James Young e-mailed "on behalf of Microsoft to site managers that illegal content was emerged and sommeerde to remove what some site managers also did. It was mainly ROMs with beta of Windows Mobile 6.5, the update of Microsoft's mobile OS, which should come out around the summer.
The mail of Young proved to be a hoax: Microsoft has told XDA-Developers deny that the summons in the name of the company would be sent, saying that the e-mail address is not correct and that such ties somma always sent a letter instead of e -mail.
Previously sent someone with the same e-mail address and under the same name somma ties to illegal content sites of the Xbox would have placed. Also torrent site The Pirate Bay already received a message from this' James Young '.
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Addressing sites like XDA-Developers is not a matter for Microsoft, says Maarten Sonneveld Microsoft Netherlands Tweakers.net. "What is happening there, adjusting roms is illegal. They go to get the intellectual property of others." Microsoft does not want the sites to be addressed. "This intellectual property is not with us. The ROMs are owned by manufacturers or providers, if the branded versions. We supply only the OS."
The largest manufacturer of Windows Mobile devices, HTC has no plans for the sites from the air go out. "What happens there may not", says HTC Benelux director Mark Moons. "But XDA-Developers is the largest and most active community of Windows Mobile developers. We can not live with 'em and we can not live without' em."
Last week was an end to the tolerance of the Windows Mobile communities. One James Young e-mailed "on behalf of Microsoft to site managers that illegal content was emerged and sommeerde to remove what some site managers also did. It was mainly ROMs with beta of Windows Mobile 6.5, the update of Microsoft's mobile OS, which should come out around the summer.
The mail of Young proved to be a hoax: Microsoft has told XDA-Developers deny that the summons in the name of the company would be sent, saying that the e-mail address is not correct and that such ties somma always sent a letter instead of e -mail.
Previously sent someone with the same e-mail address and under the same name somma ties to illegal content sites of the Xbox would have placed. Also torrent site The Pirate Bay already received a message from this' James Young '.
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