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George Hotz Declines The $10'000

November 1, 2009

blackra1n

As you probably heard yesterday, Geohot unlocked the latest baseband and is planning to release it on the 4th of November. This means that if you bought your iPhone recently or you upgraded the firmware by mistake you'll very soon be free again to use your device with the operator of your choice. For the achievement and financial compensation, Jody Sanders, who's been selling illegitimately his unlock solutions, offered him $10'000 but Geohot decided not to take the money. He had already claimed he'll not be doing this for money and today he officially declined it on his blog. Why would he possibly do that ? well, he claims that accepting the money would be legitimizing this shady business and he also wants to get the message out that nobody should have to pay for jailbreaking:
I'm asking for everyones help on this. Our weapon is information. Get the truth out, that all iPhone unlocks and jailbreaks are free, and if you are buying something, you aren't getting anything a simple google search couldn't get you, and are probably funding someones crack habit.
He's right, so many websites exploit people's ignorance (or laziness?) and make money on Geohot's and the Dev Team's back. Unfortunately the funny part is that the Adwords advertisements on his blog actually mostly link to these websites... Not too coherent right ? [via iPhonejtag]

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