POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Compiling stuff : Re: Compiling stuff Server Time
1 Oct 2024 07:20:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Compiling stuff  
From: Eero Ahonen
Date: 16 Dec 2008 10:52:03
Message: <4947cea3@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

And if they released the specs for that kind of device to the 3rd party
members could, that 3rd party could make better software even faster and
generate bigger sales for that current product.

-Aero


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