I realize that I'm likely to get flamed needlessly for asking these questions, but:
- Why would anyone donate money to someone that they don't even know in the hopes that they can hack the DX? Seems to me that if they were really that good, they would get their own DX themselves and be able to "un-brick" the phone during the process.
- If FROYO is due out from Verizon/Motorola very soon on the DX, why is it that everyone wants the DX Rooting figured out so soon?
Please don't misconstrue my post as attacking anyone, I merely just don't understand. Please feel free to help with my Android Education!
Alright, I don't think anyone really answered this adequately. So I'll put my professional lurking career aside for a second to tackle this.
1. This is an open source community. No one charges anything. If we didn't donate, nothing would really happen. A lot of these "devs" are bored college kids making things on the side for extra coinage. If they're loaded or not, I have no idea, doesn't really matter. They have already made things that we all use and will continue to use, so we pay them back. There's now a new feat for them to conquer, so we're supporting them in doing so. If you follow this site it's not as unconnected as you make it sound. The developers are heavily part of the community, they work with everyone and give us what we want, and the non shisty people then donate in thanks.
You said you're an IT, so just relate it to microsoft vs linux. They work off two WHOLE different concepts. You're bringing a microsoft mindset into a linux world.
2. I didn't buy the phone, but if I did you want it cracked before a new one comes out. If it isn't cracked soon enough, everyone will just roll over to the new phone and leave you in their wake. The biggest part about custom roms to me is the longevity it gives a phone. In a few months a company will give a rats ass about its broken promises and only worry about future phones. You're now stuck with the phone for another year waiting for your upgrade. When if it's cracked you still get the updates before the company even releases them, killing a lot of the headache of having old things and saving you from spilling out a few hundred pointless dollars. (Rooting and Roms are two different things, Roms requiring getting past the encrypted bootloader are the biggest problem.)
And to cover everyone's dismay, Motorola came into a OS part of the market and added an encryption. That doesn't go over smoothly. I don't see a problem with this as it is their product, just so as I make the decision not to buy it. And someone might want to correct me on this, but I think Motorola is part of the OS phone agreement (don't know the actual name for it, but close enough.) Kind of ass backwards to call yourself OS then throw an encryption on your product.
