Back When Synths Were Beautiful

[Paul Maddox]

Dong,

 I agree with you, and if I owned a wave I would've reverse engineered
the electronics and hence memory map and started recoding from scratch
(it's quicker than fixing decompiled assembly).

 But I don't own one, and the friend who does is wary of doing
anything he ought not. Though he has said if I did ever own a wave
he'd be happy to work on the code with me.

 Anyone care to donate a wave?

Paul

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:15 PM, The Dong <dong at f2s.com> wrote:
> Paul Maddox wrote:
>> Who knows, ultimately they have refused to pass any information to my
>> friend and he's doing what he can. He's also been told that is *NOT*
>> allowed to sell or distribute his OS if it contains any of their
>> original code.
>
> 10 years ago, I might have said the likes of Sir Maddox and friends were
> a tiny speck of insignificance, the mad professors who only show up as a
> laugh to fill a spot every 20 years on the lunch time news. But these
> days there are so many engineer/science/hackers that have come out of
> the woodwork, it is more frequent to find exactly the hack you seek than
> to not be able to find any info.
>
> They could just pull the same stunt as our trusted leadership and
> accidentally mislay or leave the code on a bus...
>
> It works for them ;)
>
> Frankly, if I fixed something I'd have no qualms about releasing either
> the information to do it, or the whole thing, unless I was a business
> with much to lose in fannying about with legal procedure in the grey
> areas of legalese guff.
>
> Depending on your location, reverse engineering is NOT illegal, nor is
> distributing the information to modify. In fact, I doubt anyone is at
> real risk of coming a cropper by reverse engineering or modifying any
> commercial product. The threats are usually enough to discourage most
> from disobeying, but the legal system permits investigation and
> experiment in most areas, as to forbid this is ultimately to forbid the
> progression of scientific discovery.
>
> In other words: that EULA is worthless twaddle ;)
>
> What I'm trying to say is that everyone has a right to investigate,
> discover and modify whatever the hell they want, whether paid for or
> free, and only shit-bag companies, like Apple, try every trick in the
> book to try and prevent this form of progression. The internet has
> allowed one (or a group of) 'crackpot' bedroom scientist or hackers
> achievements to be easily transmitted to the world and implemented on
> huge scale. Unfortunately, this un-business model of end user connection
> is even more efficient in operation than the average corporate
> management structure and information traffic jams.
>
> Leaving big business lurching blindly for legal poo to quash the very
> stuff they should be embracing as the inevitable (and unstoppable) future.
>
> imho, sort of.
> Yadda, yadda.
>
>
>
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