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by Goopplesoft 4561 days ago
Did they change the text? What I'm seeing is:

> SaurikIT had been in talks with Chinese companies regarding potential partnerships, made a counteroffer. We believe they share our views on how a relationship with companies in China currently utilizing jailbreaking might benefit everyone in the community. Unfortunately, the negotiations did not work out. A few days later, we received information that SaurikIT was working with another group to release a jailbreak ahead of us. We decided to release, knowing that Cydia, MobileSubstrate, and jailbreak tweaks would be updated after a few days, just as it always has in the course of jailbreaking.

Which seems honest and clear enough (financial incentives and potential loss of the contract motivated the release) without the whole "shame on saurik" thing.
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saurik 4561 days ago
My Twitter replies were filled with people angry at me for "backstabbing", I think largely caused by i0n1c's interpretation of the letter.

> LOL now the @evad3rs say that @saurik backstabbed them and tried to release JB with other people. http://evasi0n.com/l.html

-- https://twitter.com/i0n1c/status/414859729081352192

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bri3d 4561 days ago
Read the paragraph you accurately summarized again: you managed to make the inference, but what they actually wrote was akin to "we decided to release because we didn't want Saurik to be first," not "we decided to release because we could lose our contract and money."
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grugq 4561 days ago
Payment was conditional on being first and being exclusive. You do not pay 1 million dollars to be second out the gate, particularly because you can simply copy the first guy's work.

Unless the evad3rs released first, they would not get paid. Or, more accurately, they would have to return money. I don't think they were excited by that prospect.

This evad3rs letter is, to use clapper-ism, "the least untruthful statement"

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