{"id":9523,"date":"2011-01-20T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"microsoft-offers-ps3-hacker-a-free-windows-phone-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9523-microsoft-offers-ps3-hacker-a-free-windows-phone-7","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft offers PS3 hacker a free Windows Phone 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in olden times of olde, rivals whose otherwise noble dignity or moral convictions precluded brawling in the pub would insult one another with a delicate but humiliating slap, usually through the medium of a frilly glove and a bold declaration including words like &ldquo;forsooth&rdquo;, &ldquo;knave&rdquo;, or perhaps &ldquo;ye rofl&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s kind of what Microsoft has just done.<\/p>\n<p>When George &ldquo;GeoHot&rdquo; Hotz &ndash; most recently (in)famous for publishing the PS3&rsquo;s master security keys online, and breaking the console open to modding, piracy, alien invasion &ndash; announced on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/BrandonWatson\/status\/27508118367772672\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> that he was looking to buy a Windows Phone 7, Microsoft&rsquo;s Brandon Watson responded with:<br \/>&#8220;#geohot if you want to build cool stuff on #wp7, send me email and the team will give you a phone &#8211; let dev creativity flourish #wp7dev<\/p>\n<p>Oh. Oh, burn.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps he can develop an app for managing his litigation schedules with Sony. Lawyer meetings and court dates and whatnot can really crowd a guy&rsquo;s time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says \u201clet dev creativity flourish\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}