> Come to think of it... If this were a common situation, and a 
> company earned a lot of money from replacement chips, it'd be 
> fascinating to watch the possible legal reprocussions of 
> developing a cleanroom implementation of the *bootloader* 
> that after being burned into a chip would allow the closed 
> bootloader program load up a working firmware.
> 
> Love to see judges rule on that one... The issue of if the 
> bootloader was mainly used for repairs, or making whole 


Guess how Compaq got started.

Tony

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