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P3Droid: Some Food for Thought - Bootloaders, Rooting, Manufacturers, and Carriers

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Great article, I didn't have time to read the entire thing, just skimmed through. In a nutshell what is this all about? What do I have to be worried about? I currently have a rooted DX, is it time to unroot or is it safe to keep messing with my DX? I wish someone could break down the article, make it a little more smaller, understandable for noobs like me.
 
The first response was on April 2nd for his post on my Droid world, plus he is happy, he just got a xoom. Read his twitter feed. That leaked gb from TBH maybe upset some corporate thugs, thus this info, however vague, has freaked everyone out. I know nothing, just surmising.

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I think we all need to just take a breath and relax a little bit there's really nothing we can do to stop big corporations or who ever unless someone just has billions of dollars to blow and start there own phone company haha

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Well it's funny that so many here say oh the hacking community is small and insignificant and our wants and needs mean nothing to the big Co's. Yet the same insignificant community can cause the whole industry to spend all this time and effort to squash. You can't have it both ways either we are too small to matter or not. If we are big enough to cause this type of expense then we are big enough to cause change. Its sad when some say oh the writing is on the wall just live with it... That is a defeatist attitude and one that I personally will not take. Sure if you want to roll over be my guest most people do and a few will not and they will fight. These are the few that get policies to change via laws, courts or using their own dollars as leverage. I will speak my mind, I will tell VZW, Moto etc... my thoughts and I will speak with my dollars by not rewarding a company or companies that try to stop me from doing what I want with my own property.

Whether this happens or not I don't know because I can't see how carries that use sim cards can stop u from using a rooted phone but anyway... If we just sit back and take it then we deserve to be screwed. We have voices, we have ovt representatives and we have the courts that we can use to keep the playing field even. Look at apples loss on DMCA grounds with regards to jailbreaking. It is legal to jailbreak, thus it is legal to root and if carriers do go this route it will be in our best interest to sue.

Regardless, I will not reward any company that keeps me from using my own property as I see fit. I don't tether, or use bootleg apps for free, or do anything illegal with my phones. I understand the need to protect content and the network but not when it tramples my rights. Just because I root doesn't mean I'm a criminal...
 
I like ChevyNo1's attitude. Check out his response in the "no more rooting" thread. He makes amazing roms and has the hundred yard stare. Watch Full Metal Jacket if you don't get that reference.
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+100 moedaddy, now is not the time for retreat. Maybe a quiet contemplation for those rooting to cheat, but not for us who just want freedom and creative control over our devices/lives. If you have been abusing the freedom, please unroot now, before someone makes you. There is no way to look good using a rotary wall phone.

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MoeDaddy said:
Well it's funny that so many here say oh the hacking community is small and insignificant and our wants and needs mean nothing to the big Co's. Yet the same insignificant community can cause the whole industry to spend all this time and effort to squash. You can't have it both ways either we are too small to matter or not. If we are big enough to cause this type of expense then we are big enough to cause change. Its sad when some say oh the writing is on the wall just live with it... That is a defeatist attitude and one that I personally will not take. Sure if you want to roll over be my guest most people do and a few will not and they will fight. These are the few that get policies to change via laws, courts or using their own dollars as leverage. I will speak my mind, I will tell VZW, Moto etc... my thoughts and I will speak with my dollars by not rewarding a company or companies that try to stop me from doing what I want with my own property.

Whether this happens or not I don't know because I can't see how carries that use sim cards can stop u from using a rooted phone but anyway... If we just sit back and take it then we deserve to be screwed. We have voices, we have ovt representatives and we have the courts that we can use to keep the playing field even. Look at apples loss on DMCA grounds with regards to jailbreaking. It is legal to jailbreak, thus it is legal to root and if carriers do go this route it will be in our best interest to sue.

Regardless, I will not reward any company that keeps me from using my own property as I see fit. I don't tether, or use bootleg apps for free, or do anything illegal with my phones. I understand the need to protect content and the network but not when it tramples my rights. Just because I root doesn't mean I'm a criminal...
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+10! Amen to that! I will most definitely join in and fight to the end.

Think about it, we the people are the ones who made these companies big with OUR money, OUR interest, OUR originality giving these companies a brand name to flash to the world. Without us, they are a lost cause. If this is a battle they choose to pick with us, then it's going to be a battle that will hurt their reputation. I don't think most CEO's and others will want to be in the same boat as Steve Jobs is in.

But if you want to roll over, like Moe said, and let them beat senseless crap into your brain till they have you buying into whatever they want you to buy into, then go right ahead while the rest of us rise up against this nonsense.
 
MoeDaddy said:
Well it's funny that so many here say oh the hacking community is small and insignificant and our wants and needs mean nothing to the big Co's. Yet the same insignificant community can cause the whole industry to spend all this time and effort to squash. You can't have it both ways either we are too small to matter or not. If we are big enough to cause this type of expense then we are big enough to cause change. Its sad when some say oh the writing is on the wall just live with it... That is a defeatist attitude and one that I personally will not take. Sure if you want to roll over be my guest most people do and a few will not and they will fight. These are the few that get policies to change via laws, courts or using their own dollars as leverage. I will speak my mind, I will tell VZW, Moto etc... my thoughts and I will speak with my dollars by not rewarding a company or companies that try to stop me from doing what I want with my own property.

Whether this happens or not I don't know because I can't see how carries that use sim cards can stop u from using a rooted phone but anyway... If we just sit back and take it then we deserve to be screwed. We have voices, we have ovt representatives and we have the courts that we can use to keep the playing field even. Look at apples loss on DMCA grounds with regards to jailbreaking. It is legal to jailbreak, thus it is legal to root and if carriers do go this route it will be in our best interest to sue.

Regardless, I will not reward any company that keeps me from using my own property as I see fit. I don't tether, or use bootleg apps for free, or do anything illegal with my phones. I understand the need to protect content and the network but not when it tramples my rights. Just because I root doesn't mean I'm a criminal...
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+1,000,000

I'm in the exact same boat. I personally just love having access to my CPU settings and the ability to overclock and customize the look and feel of my phone. Aside from the obvious benefits of having a custom recovery, backing up and restoring full system and user data (my old blackberry completely froze and had to be replaced and I lost everything). And about not rewarding a company, that is exactly why I went to the thunderbolt after my moto droid. Goodbye moto
 
MoeDaddy said:
Regardless, I will not reward any company that keeps me from using my own property as I see fit. I don't tether, or use bootleg apps for free, or do anything illegal with my phones. I understand the need to protect content and the network but not when it tramples my rights. Just because I root doesn't mean I'm a criminal...
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Their Network, Their Rules....

When you sign the contract you agree to the rights you have when access and using their Network.
 
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