Did Phonenews Rip you guys off

[Donatom3]

http://www.phonenews.com/how-to-add-...00-titan-2663/

They are taking the credit for the Titan GPS rom and clearly using roms that were posted here and at XDA

[Lsme420]

It looks like their using DCDs work. Wonder if he knows?

[varaff]

Not to mention KmartBurito who actually released the original ROM.

[Donatom3]

Yeah they seperated the radio rom out. I mean it's cool someone wrote a step by step. If you look at the bottom I think he's trying to use this as his oops my bad clause, "The efforts of many people contributed to this process. We cannot thank them all individually, but we do acknowledge (and thank) the active HTC hacking community for these developments."

I mean honestly isn't it only 3 people who need to be thanked here. The guy who leaked the radio rom, the guy who's rom they're using and the guy who made the unlocker.

Added:

Oh I see someone called him out on DCD's rom.

and his reply was
"If we credit DCD, there’s going to be two or three people that will come forward saying that DCD’s work wouldn’t have been possible without their work. Or, someone will say DCD just copied XYZ’s techniques and re-rolled the ROM. We’ve been through this before. What we said applies best, we thank everyone that contributed."

[GoMogul]

Well I dont see they take personal credit for this, as it says they where just waiting for stability...
"After days of waiting for stability, PhoneNews.com is hosting all the tools you need, and a simple guide to add GPS navigation to your HTC Titan..."

they state that they just made the compilation of files and at the end they thank all the ppl who contributed to this, in this case like Donato said, KmartBurrito, ImCokeMan and DcD...
"The efforts of many people contributed to this process. We cannot thank them all individually, but we do acknowledge (and thank) the active HTC hacking community for these developments."

[GoMogul]

Dint get to see that last reply, (closed the tab after posting the reply here =P)

[zaya]

Originally Posted by GoMogul

Well I dont see they take personal credit for this, as it says they where just waiting for stability...
"After days of waiting for stability, PhoneNews.com is hosting all the tools you need, and a simple guide to add GPS navigation to your HTC Titan..."

they state that they just made the compilation of files and at the end they thank all the ppl who contributed to this, in this case like Donato said, KmartBurrito, ImCokeMan and DcD...
"The efforts of many people contributed to this process. We cannot thank them all individually, but we do acknowledge (and thank) the active HTC hacking community for these developments."

THANKS KmartBurrito, ImCokeMan and DcD FOR ALL YOUR TIRELESS (and might I add speedy) WORK/EFFORTS. (See....that wasnt that hard)

[steps]

Originally Posted by zaya

THANKS KmartBurrito, ImCokeMan and DcD FOR ALL YOUR TIRELESS (and might I add speedy) WORK/EFFORTS. (See....that wasnt that hard)

and Olipro=D>

[s10onn2o]

Heres what i posted over there if they will show it lol

Holy crap are you kidding me you need to point these people over to our site for this is is not for the people with the faint of heart. People really need to know that you can really f-up your ppc and if you dont belive me i am a beta tester over there and i go though the phones flash over and over agian. With that said YES it can be done easly and safe, but please read everything at our fourms before you do it. And read everyone else’s problams before you do it.
Thanks DCD/ Kmartburrito/Olipro/ImCoKeMaN/WideAwake and every one else.
http://www.xda-developers.com/

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[Christopher Price]

Hello everyone, I would like to clarify a few things.

First, when we ran the article in question, PPCGeeks was offline. We did not have time, nor access to do exhaustive checking of who-did-what.

Second, as we've stated in the article's comments (which few, if anyone that have posted complaining have read fully), we did not credit individuals because of that reason, as well as the fact that ROM releases are never handled by a single individual.

In the past, we did credit individuals in the hacking community for our consolidated guides. However, we received complaints from those that supported those hackers we cited.

As you can see, we're darned if we do, and darned if we don't. We're in our fifth year of doing this day by day, and we do have to make tough decisions in this regard. However, we're confident that we gave appropriate credit to the entire hacking community for pulling this out of the recent developments.

In this thread alone, there has been debate and discussion as to who should be credited. We simply don't have the resources, nor the niche-level focus to properly handle that.

Finally, to the above poster, we have approved your comment and responded to it. We're all about improving the hacking community, we only remove discussion that is blatantly argumentative or crude.