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Is The Jailbreak Community Contaminated By Leeches?

I have spoken to many an open source developer who felt that many in the open source community were parasites. Primarily they mean companies who take open source code, profit commercially from it, but don't give anything back to the community. The facts are though that well over 90% (probably closer to 98%) of open source community members just consume open source product and contribute no code back at all. Yes, some do beta testing and find bugs, but the success of many open source projects are built on the backs of a handful of developers.

Now, one of the leading members of the Apple jailbreak community is refusing to divulge his jailbreak techniques because he says the jailbreak community is "contaminated" by "leeches." He is not talking about people taking without giving anything back, but the attitude that the jailbreak hackers are somehow beholden to the users.

Stefan Esser, better know as i0n1c, is famous for his jailbreak of iOS 4.3.x. But he has also shown a YouTube of his iPad3 running iOS 5.1 jailbroken as well. Esser has refused to release the hack he devised that allowed him to jailbreak his device. This has angered many in the jailbreak community who think Esser is un-rightfully "holding out."
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