On Jun 7, 2008, at 11:16 PM, Vasile Surducan wrote:
> I have doubts someone will bother to copy the firmware of a simple
> product, it's much easy (and less expensive) to understand the
> functionality of the product and write own firmware.

I knew a guy that made and sold a little PIC-based temperature  
logger.  He went to the trouble of sanding the chips so that would-be  
copiers would have more trouble duplicating the design.  I thought it  
was pretty silly; if I want to copy such a device, I don't need to  
reverse-engineer it; I can just create it from scratch...

BillW

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