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Originally Posted by nuprotocol
Exactly! Again, we're thankful for their work, but to call this method a donation is kind of ridiculous. I’m glad Mighty doesn’t allow us to install his rom ONCE and then makes us submit support tickets for additional installs. Then if we do get a second device unlocked to install his rom, he then tells us that we NEED to donate for additional installs. It’s people like that I’m TRULY thankful for b/c they are not FORCING us to contact them after the first install.
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Ok, so here's a hypothetical then:
You've just spent 100 or so hours working on a tool to unlock people's phones. You have no intention of charging the general public, however a few unscrupulous people decide to take this software and use it to sell unlocked phones while charging $50 extra a pop. They make thousands of dollars of your hard work, and you don't get as much as a thank you from them.
Is it really unreasonable to put in place a mechanism to try to prevent these people from making money off of your hard work?
Granted their system seems to have some bugs in it, but what nontrivial system has ever worked on the first try?
Honestly when reading these forums and having to wade through the disguisting sense of entitlement from so many ingrates can you really blame them for taking a little while to respond to the support requests around Christmas time?
Also to those complaining about collection of "personally identifiable information" - how exactly do you figure that an IMEI (your phone's serial number) and an IP address is "personally identifiable"?