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Originally Posted by Dynotronics1
Ahh, so your saying that you should be able to go buy a car and the manufacturer should hand you the source code? LOL
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No, I didn't say that at all.
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Open source did not define the market, they in fact copied quite a bit of it from companies like Ecutek.
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I was wondering when you were going to start quoting Ecutek propaganda. It's simply not true. Epifan might (might - I don't know) have, but no one associated with the open source projects did.
I would know. And I spent too many hours of my life for you to call me a thief. I've never even seen Ecutek's software.
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I support you in your wish to tune your own car. About 20% of our business is repairing butchered rom files from customers who get in way over their heads. So believe me, I FULLY support your objective
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It's not about tuning your own car. It's about not paying outrageous license fees and not owning the data you paid for. I'm not a tuner, I'm a programmer and a consumer.
Explain to me how Honda tuners do it. There are a couple professional tuners who encrypt their Hondata maps and tons who don't. How do they stay in business, just giving it away like that? The market is evolving incredibly slow but it IS evolving. There will always be a market for professional tuners, but the market for professional tuners who don't give the customer what they want will get smaller. Proud to say my state of Iowa is mostly free of that.