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Old 05-01-2013, 10:38 PM   #51
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Originally Posted by TOTO_86 View Post
What's the licence for? I have an idea what the cable is for. :-D
It's similar to a software license for running MS Office on your home computer. You have to pay a licensing fee to run the EcuTek software ROM on your ECU. So the tuner then charges a tuning fee for the map that they have built that works with the EcuTek ROM. That's probably the biggest disadvantage of EcuTek. It's a proprietary software so the cost is higher than an open source solution. BRZedit seems to have a cheaper licensing model (although very limited tuner support) and Unichip doesn't have a licensing fee although you have to buy their hardware.
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