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On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:52:38PM -0400, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> scott larson wrote:
> > I contacted Olimex and they
> > said that the firmware is copyrighted and I'd have to pay $30 +
> > shipping for a new 18F252 with the firmware on it.
> >
> > Again, does anyone have this programmer and can upload the firmware
> > for me?
> 
> Perhaps I'm missing something, but the above certainly sounds like you're a
> dirtbag trying to steal $30 worth of copyrighted material.

He has a peice of hardware, that allows the customer to accidentally
destroy it through a series of commands that really shouldn't be able to
do that.

He wants to fix that peice of hardware, himself, by rewriting the flash
chip that allowed itself to be rewritten with no option of going back.

Dirtbag does not enter into it. Olimex are the dirtbags here by being so
nasty about their firmware. I've run into a similar problem myself,
where I needed to downgrade the firmware on my Olimex programmer,
and they completely refuse to let you.

I'm sticking with PICKit2's myself, Microchip's included enough
information, source code and hardware schematics, to go off and make a
new one, plus they're cheaper and come in a nice case rather than a bare
circuit board.

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