Sometimes manufacturers add seemingly sensless and unused pieces of code
to their software to aid them in copyright infringment cases.  Perhaps
they added this so anyone making a direct code copy and selling their
firmware could be more easily prosecuted.

Even if removed they can still prosecute, but it almost makes it trivial
when the infringer copies the firmware without significant changes.

Pretty funny, though.  Reminds me of the microsoft message years ago:
"There was quite a stir when someone found the phrase "Netscape
programmers are Weenies" inside a Microsoft program that had a serious
security flaw. The message had nothing to do with the security flaw, but
it had gone undetected for five years"
from http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19005.html

-Adam

Jim Robertson wrote:

> Anyone know why this message is coded as RETLW  0xNN instructions in the
> ICD 2 firmware?
>
> "All Your Base Are Belong To Us"
>
> I'm sure there is a good reason, I would just like to hear it, but
> probably
> only until I do.
> Then I will probably regret it...  ;-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim
>
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