| ??? 02/15/08 19:25 Read: times |
#150901 - locked doors Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Richard Erlacher said:
If a developer chooses to protect his content, be it a CD or a CPLD or a microcontroller, by invoking the on-chip protection for his code, he's saying that the door is locked. Perhaps there's a society within which it is considered appropriate and legal to enter a locked space and examine or remove the contents, and appropriate them for one's own use. I know of no such culture, however. And, do you know a society, where it is considered appropriate and legal to enter through an UNLOCKED door, and take what you want? I don't think that copying an UNLOCKED microcontroller or whatever is more ethical than copying a locked one. Your analogy does not apply to this case at all. Don't get me wrong: I don't like, approve etc. it, but I accept the fact that this is a rough world and this happens all the time. If you believe that playing what you believe is a fair game will be rewarding somehow, please, be warned, this is not the case. YMMV. JW |
