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Originally Posted by ft_sjo
EcuTek exists to protect the tuner's IP, which is fair enough. You don't own a tuner's calibration, you're just licensed to use it.
If you don't like that then you have to tune it yourself.
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the problem is that they don't give you that option. so, in 5-10 years when my annointed tuner is no longer around and i need to adjust something, i get to pay all over again or start from scratch with an open source map. you can't just pull and edit the file, because you don't own it. this is one of the only markets i can think of where you can pay for labor and not own the fruit of it, and it has broad practical implications.
if software development terms, you are left with a critical external dependency on this map, with no maintenance guarantee. this is ok if the provider is microsoft and has the money to support customers of a failed effort for years. these guys aren't microsoft. this is exactly why linux won the server war, people naturally fear locked-down external dependencies, for good reason.
now our cars run on one lol.