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"Rip the firmware out of the MCU. Decap it and read the bits out, literally with a microscope, as some have done. "Oh, but that's too hard!" Exactly - and there is no legal thing stopping you."

"Based on your resorting to making claims that are simply lies, I'm done."

You are the one presenting a total lie!

If I read firmware out of my BOSH washing machine and sell it to repair stores so that they can fix more washing machines, I will get shut down withing days. If start making and selling motors identical to the one in this machine, no-one can stop me.

Failing to recognise this distinction indicates you are not interested in an real coversation, but just want to push your ideology.



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