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Joe Riel
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> "Dan O'Brasky" <[email protected]> wrote in message
Dan gives several reasons for Polar not giving their s/w away. Most seem silly to me, however, one
of them made me consider a reasonable objection.
> they are a competitor trying to reverse engineer it to take shortcuts making it work with their
> product?
At face value, as I understand it, this makes no sense. If a competitor is going to the trouble
to reverse-engineer and manufacture a product, the cost of legitimately purchasing a sample from
the original manufacturer is insignificant, it doesn't matter whether they could get it free.
Possibly this is not what was meant. The reasonable objection I came up, which follows, may be
what you had in mind.
If Polar makes their s/w freely available, then another company merely has to design h/w to be
compatible with Polar's s/w; they don't have to develop any s/w, just point their customers to
Polar's website. That might be the sort of thing that would worry the business types...
Joe Riel
Dan gives several reasons for Polar not giving their s/w away. Most seem silly to me, however, one
of them made me consider a reasonable objection.
> they are a competitor trying to reverse engineer it to take shortcuts making it work with their
> product?
At face value, as I understand it, this makes no sense. If a competitor is going to the trouble
to reverse-engineer and manufacture a product, the cost of legitimately purchasing a sample from
the original manufacturer is insignificant, it doesn't matter whether they could get it free.
Possibly this is not what was meant. The reasonable objection I came up, which follows, may be
what you had in mind.
If Polar makes their s/w freely available, then another company merely has to design h/w to be
compatible with Polar's s/w; they don't have to develop any s/w, just point their customers to
Polar's website. That might be the sort of thing that would worry the business types...
Joe Riel