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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
 
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