Eero Ahonen wrote:
> 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.

Weeell... the guys who made the updated firmware for *my* device also 
offer more or less the same program for several *rival* devices too. Not 
sure how that works commercially...

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