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Originally Posted by Jedakiah
Personally, I have become quite suspicious of this fund. For one thing, I have seen on multiple forums posts from the fundraisers saying "we have $391, only $35 more to go!" then responses on each forum from a unique user stating that they just donated $35... Which means the fund got more than it asked for.
And now that they have more than enough money there is a new fund for incentives to root the droid. Except none of the excess money from the old fund was carried over and we already bought a guy a bloody phone to play around with, what more does he want?
I hope I am wrong, but this just don't seem right.
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Yevar has hit his target of 425 begin the teardown process. He has found out some information and he gets it all written up it will be showing up in the Wiki. The 425 that was raised was to buy that phone and get him out of contract so he can take it apart and reverse engineer it.
The root the droid fund is a different approach that I'm trying to try and attract people to wanting to help out on rooting the droid. Its for a different purpose and is a "winner take all" incentive to the first to find a way to root the droid. This was the same approach that was used to get the iPhone jail-broken.
So in short the 425 we raised is going to Yevar so he can tear down the phone. Any other donations that are raised in the root the droid fund will be awarded to the first person (or team) that roots the droid.
I'm not doing this to make any money. I am actively trying to root the Droid and have tried 10-15 exploits and still havn't gotten it rooted. Should I get lucky and root the Droid I will not keep the money, it will be donated to
Hackers for Charity.
With all that said please do not donate anything that you do not feel comfortable with.