Like Custom ROMs? Please Read and Sign this then.......
 

Just quoting what Helmi_C posted. If you like your Custom ROMs and want more, more upgrades, more development........than PLEASE sign this petition to help save XDA and all others. So that we may be able to post our Customs so that the masses can download. Thanks for the help and support!
~Mike

I would love to sign it, but I think it needs to be thought out a bit more. After every sentence I am asking my self, Why? Also the "Please think rationally Microsoft!" is just not the right thing to say. It is rather insulting, ads the saying goes "don't bite the hand that feeds".

I agree with you that it needs to be thought out a bit more. We have to sound more professional and also want to make them feel that with all the ROM upgrades we do, we have not made the phone companies liable for our mistakes. I, personally understand that if I brick my phone it is my responsibility to use my insurance or replace the phone. If we make them see things like that on the petition then it should be okay. I think we shoud all give ideas on what should be on the petition and draft another one up ASAP. Not taking your idea away from you Helmi_c, just trying to add to it and make it better.

I agree, although I would take out the part of using the insurance to replace the phone. This I imagine would only tick off the insurance companies and make them less likely to cover our phones or increase premiums to insure them.

Well whatever u think guys its to late now hundreds have signed this one :D But someone could always make another.....related to just custom ROMs and not xda specfic....
~Mike

In that case I am signing right away. I thought it was still early in the making.
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I ended up signing since 429 had signed before me. Hopefully enough will sign to have the carriers/M$ take a little notice.

Signed. 710

Will Microsoft give credit to the list if people aren't using their real names? Also to the people that are making the dumb comments, there's a time and place for everything. The petition isn't that place!

I agree. It only undermines the credibility and aim of the petition.

i just signed as number 852, not too shaby

I signed at 596. then I put the link to the petition on a couple other forums. just though it would help the cause.

I did give credit to ppcgeeks.com. this is where I first saw it.

cody

I agree with the wording being a little shabby. I also think that it doesn't matter how we say it. as long as something is being said. it better than saying nothing.

We need to rally and get 7000+ sigs on this thing just from here. This is for the future of all our PPC devices and our right to choose what we want. Speaking as an individual Microsoft and the device makers have yet to make a device that gives me the total package that I want. Without forums like this one, XDA and others these manufacturers wouldn't have a clew what is really desired by the PPC community. I hope Microsoft will get the massage, drop this , and let this be the testing ground so we can all help make the perfect devices that we all need/want. So to all my fellow Geeks I say, rush over, sing this petition and hope it helps.
I did sig #242 :)

I was in the 200s too kinda knew this was going to happen (Helmi_c seemed to be wary of MS lawers after all) but then, that's why closed source sucks.

As soon as open-source linux runs (with a phone) I'll go that way. I'll probably be about 80 when that happens.

Sigh.

Maybe they can have "rom hackers" like they have "developers" - give us tools, have us sign NDAs, and we can all go have fun, and never post anything.

Naw, where's the fun in that?

Well I signed. Since this is our only hope. At least I am not alone in thinking it was poorly written.

signed

Signed #1273

X

Signed #2103

2492 signatures, com on folks, we can do better than that!

Below is a message I sent to XDA Developers Board Administrator:

I think that you will find that MS has overstated its case. In the US, the federal courts have held that a person who purchases a license to software may customize the software as much as he wants up to destroying the entire program as long as it is for his own personal use. He may also employ persons to perform this customization for his own personal use.

Everyone who has purchased a phone, has purchased one license to the OS software. Further, MS and the various companies put out upgrades to the software from time to time. And even further, MS provides developers' kits so that people may write software using the OS.

MS is also missing the "freebe boat" in that it is receiving an unbelievable amount of free product development and consumer input to its products. They, like every other member of the public should watch, listen, and use the eforts of the people of this board who are so interested in improving the MS product.

Finally, every member of this board is a "nut" about their phone and wants the newest "thing" so there is very little likelyhood that MS will lose any sales in this group, especially when the hardware changes every 12 to 18 months.

In view of the above, I would respectfully request that you resist the MS request and continue to support the fine efforts of the members of this board and all others like this board. As an attorney myself, I know that MS is just "rattling its saber" to see if they can scare you away. I do not think that they would be successful in a suit against the board or any of its members in the US and certainly not in the EU where its reputation is lower than in the US.

I would suggest that you respond to them with the points raised in this letter and see what their response is. Don't mention the "attorney" part yet, lets just let them do all the work for now.

I will be happy to provide you to the cases that were decided in the US if you need them. Thank you for your great work!

I think that MS is just plain wrongheaded on this one from any angle!

Signed today. 2497

Signed.

I wish there was a way we could get custom ROMs on the 700wx.

Very well said. Great post. Thanks for help in supporting this.

signed - 3268

#3554

Signed today as number 4801. I don't think this will help but it is worth the effort!

agree...well, at least we do something... M$ suck!!

:) we must make them from scratch again... I think it just the same as 6700... hard work first then fun all over the place...

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signed #5006

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me too just didn't get the number sorry :D

#6098

Firstly, there is no way Microsoft is going to change course because of this petition. But is that really bad? No. Here is why.

Consider, how many thousands of hours have we collectively spent trying to get some stupid dll to work right? Or getting a feature like built-in GPS to work? Come on already. If Microsoft or Sprint doesn't want to put out, it is time to date someone else at the party. If a few of you like jamesus spent a few hours tightening up a linux distro for the 6700 I'd shell out a few hundred for it. We aren't bound to play by Microsoft's rules. Break free of the iron chains you are working in already and let's get something open that doesn't need to be reverse engineered for us to use. The 6700 has plenty of horsepower to run windows-mobile in emulation mode under linux, aka Wine for x86.

Get together a b-plan, show it to a few VCs, quit your day job, and stick up a web page where we can download a non-MS os for this and future phones. 6000 signers x $100 = 1/2 million bucks. And just across the street we have places like http:\\pdaphonehome.com, with 52,590 members or $5 million in potential revenue. And then there is howardforums.com and 10 other less hardcore sites ... More than enough $$ to fund the entire kitchen development team. So son't tell me the numbers don't work out. Because I am sick of being all this reverse engineering crap.

It's like sneaking out of your bedroom window of your parents house every night. Like living with your parents and complaining that you have no freedom. Do you make your parents sign a petition to let you stay up late and date girls, or just move out? LET'S MOVE OUT!

Heeeyy, how do you know my parents and can we leave them out of this? :D You do have a good point, but i'm signing anyway.

Heeeyy, how do you know my parents and can we leave them out of this? :D You do have a good point, but i'm signing anyway.

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