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Originally Posted by jamesm
i think it has a lot more to do with the first part of your argument, avoiding public dissection of the work. actually, i think that's about all that it has to do with for most tuners. the 'protection' argument just doesn't hold water. you can't protect something from the person who paid for it and a bunch of people that you claim (and we all know) it isn't useful to.
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I think you are looking at it one sided. Really plenty of software work is closed source. You don't just get to look at the code just because you buy the software. Tuning depending on the package can be considered that.
The fact that the tuners have the right to lock their ROMs is good because it leaves some of the guys who have been working on this since day 1 some secret sauce.
The fact that we have an open ROM and close ROM option now solves most of it. Will this hurt master tuners profits initially, yes but they will figure out a way to offer open tunes and other options, maybe even sell training while still having the ability to lock out their higher end tunes.