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On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 12:23:43AM -0700, William Chops Westfield wrote:
> 
> 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...

You know, this is the exact reason why I release full source code and
CAD diagrams to all of my artwork. Any of you guys could probably spend
a few weekends and recreate practically everything I've ever made having
been given a description of what it does. Might as well release
everything, the increased publicity and strengthened opensource EDA
community probably outweighs any theoretical lost sales.

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