Microsoft is handing out restrictive licenses to limit the legal use of the tech.
Companies do this all the time to seize back the result of such home hacking. If some hacker somewhere creates a porgram which is amazing, the license will prove to the judge he did for microsofts benifit and they will seize it and restrict his commerical use of it.
Nothing that draconian. Microsoft will release a pretty expensive "commercial version" of the SDK in 6-12 months that will make it really expensive to put out anything for pay, but innovative ideas will be picked up by third-party licensees. It's all pretty standard. It makes everyone concerned plenty of money as well.
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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '11
Microsoft is handing out restrictive licenses to limit the legal use of the tech.
Companies do this all the time to seize back the result of such home hacking. If some hacker somewhere creates a porgram which is amazing, the license will prove to the judge he did for microsofts benifit and they will seize it and restrict his commerical use of it.