Am Sonntag, 24. Dezember 2006 07:46 schrieb [email protected]: > Are they allowed to sell a car that incorporates a computer that > uses a trade-secret algorithm for controlling the fuel injection to > get 20 more horsepower and 5% better mileage? That would be a propritary fuel injection driver then. What we want however is access to the documentation, the specifications, that allows us to develop a very own driver, independently from the propritary one. We don't want source code or anything. Of course if the hardware manufactor supplies us with source code, that's great. Probably any customly written driver will be suboptimal in the first place, but OTOH there are so many skilled people around in the OSS scene, that such a driver would surely soon catch up, if not even surpass the propritary one. Happy holydays Wolfgang Draxinger -- "sooner or later we'll reverse engineer you."
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