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By the way, just because we hack our OWN phones does not make it any more "legal".
Lifted copies of Voice Command from other phones and the like. It does not matter if you own a license for the orginal version or not. So enough with the preaching about this "thief". I agree he could be more up front that he is charging for labor. I also agree it's not 15 minutes, depending on what variation you choose. Takes me a good hour to set up my phone the way I think works best and I did my buddies too and I even documented what I do here http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=27843 Slapping the leaked ROM on doesn't take long and may be all he is doing, who knows.
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I dont see anything wrong with what he did, the only thing he couldve done is probably give credit to the site and the developers, but then unless he is using his own custom rom, but then he would have to give credit to ppckitchen.org.....He is offering his service for installation of roms and probably cabs and exes, he isnt promoting the rom, he is promoting his installation services, who know if he donated to the cooker of the rom he is using, just like when u puy carpeting from home depot and want to install it on your own but the realize...damn its way to hard, so u call a carpet guy who that does installation!!!!!! see where it goes??? the price of 75 is way to high, and i think 50-60 is more considerable, and lets not forget people, we are in recession so if u can make extra money then hey what the hell.....so let the guy be. I work at the federal reserve and here about stuff like this everyday and it isnt illegal to offer installation services
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I have a small part-time computer business and am starting to add wm handsets. I decided I would donate $20 to PPCKitchen and keep $35 for myself. I am upfront about what I am doing and the risks and the 2 people I have lined-up to do this for are fine with it. There a quite a few people that make enough money and don't have the time or patience to learn how to do this or just the confidence. I have done a couple for my friends (no charge) not because they can't but more because they are scared and trust me. This guy was a deuche for a lack of disclosure and for gouging.
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if someone i didnt know asked me "wow you u have GPS will u do that to my phone" id charge them $50. An hour of my time isnt free. Id tell him how and they could do it for themselves but I wouldnt do it for free. I got enough friends that think im there IT manager for their PPC's
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i have a buddy that owns a computer shop. he charges $125 to load an operating system on a computer. it's a flat fee. i actually had to use him because i was so busy with my regular billable work, i didn't have time to fix a broken computer at the office. to my knowledge, he doesn't pay microsoft any fees for installing their software. he's charging for his time. i trade services for my friends. i work on their computers and my friends work on my plumbing, my cars and my crown molding. if it doesn't have a computer chip, i don't understand how it works. my friends are the same way with computers. they barely know how to turn them on. ppcs are the same. if a person has basic knowledge, they can use the resourses around them to assist in upgrading other people's ppcs. other people that have no clue how to do a hard reset much less how to upgrade the rom and add new software. all that being said. the only foul shot that this guy really made is to not fully disclose where he was getting the info from. other than that, as long a we have the type of business system that we have in the states where people get paid for their knowldge, i just have no problems at all with someone getting paid to offer a service to someone that doesn't know that service and it freaks me out a little that most of the postings here just aren't grasping that. |
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