Why all the complaining? You expect a company to pay engineer to innovate, patent those ideas and NOT pursue infringement? What is the point of engineering if you are just going to let anyone come along and copy your idea?
I believe M$oft does not allow the sale of blank systems. They really control what goes on a system. I think Wal-mart tried this and was strong-armed by M$soft.
This guy does not know what he is talking about. I used to write firmware for engine and transmission controllers. The parameters for the performance limits are usually burned into an eeprom or flash chip on the controller board somewhere.
How can you burn data into an eeprom/flash if you don't know the proper commands? How can you reverse engineer the command if you don't see it on the bus? It is not possible. These controllers are black boxes that can not be reverse engineered. You need to have schematics and source code and documentation to modify the parameters, to know the format the parameters are stored in memory and where they are stored.
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No. Only the chairwomen of the board authorized this. Not the board members (they were pissed when the found out) nor the CEO.
The Chairman(woman) of the board of a corporation has waaaaay too much power these days.
Why all the complaining? You expect a company to pay engineer to innovate, patent those ideas and NOT pursue infringement? What is the point of engineering if you are just going to let anyone come along and copy your idea?
I believe M$oft does not allow the sale of blank systems. They really control what goes on a system. I think Wal-mart tried this and was strong-armed by M$soft.
This guy does not know what he is talking about. I used to write firmware for engine and transmission controllers. The parameters for the performance limits are usually burned into an eeprom or flash chip on the controller board somewhere.
How can you burn data into an eeprom/flash if you don't know the proper commands? How can you reverse engineer the command if you don't see it on the bus? It is not possible. These controllers are black boxes that can not be reverse engineered. You need to have schematics and source code and documentation to modify the parameters, to know the format the parameters are stored in memory and where they are stored.