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Originally Posted by Dynotronics1
Ah, so all the work we put into developing a calibration should just be given to everyone? what if your the guy that paid us to tune your car, first on the list, so to speak, you think its then fair for your buddy, down the street to just copy it without paying any of what you did?
We would have to agree to disagree here. I do this for a living, and spend thousands of hours on a platform developing a calibration for it. Why then would I give it away for free?
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This will be a never ending battle between those who tune for a living and the DIYer. Personally I agree that if I am paying for a service I own the byproduct. Just as the byproduct of an employee of a company is owned by the company.
Those who are not a DIYer will not mind paying for a tune with a set it and forget it approach.
I think the disagreement comes to those who want to make hardware changes and thus make changes to the ECU maps as changes are made to the car. It could be the gap in knowledge where someone is comfortable making small incremental changes based on additional mods, but is not comfortable drafting an entirely new tune when they transition from NA to FI. Is it fair to limit that ability by locking the tune they paid for? Not in my opinion. Does it mean they could take advantage of your base map and exploit it on the Internet? Yes it does, and this is where the disagreement comes in to play. For honest people who value others work, this is a non-issue. Those looking to use the fruits of someone else's labor to make a profit for themselves, are those who you are trying to avoid and I understand that.
This reply isn't intended to argue one way or another. It's just an attempt to explain my views on both sides and acknowledging that your statement of agreeing to disagree is as far as it will get.