POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Compiling stuff : Re: Compiling stuff Server Time
2 Nov 2024 19:16:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Compiling stuff  
From: scott
Date: 16 Dec 2008 09:53:43
Message: <4947c0f7$1@news.povray.org>
> It just amuses me though that a bunch of people can take the device apart 
> and figure out how it works with no access to any technical data at all. 
> This should be 100% impossible, but somehow they did it. And they did it 
> better than the makers themselves...

I'm sure the total number of man-hours they spent reverse engineering it and 
rewriting the firmware *far* outweighs what the OEM spent on it.  For a 
commercial venture it just wouldn't be profitable, but if a group of people 
enjoy doing that for a hobby, sure.


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