On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > > Ignoring Brian's strange arguments about rodents, I can see no cases > > where the user has more freedom if the firmware comes from an eeprom > > rather than from a CD. > He can sell the device with the firmware in it,
How's that different? If the firmware comes on a CD the user can sell the device along with the CD. He can't copy the CD, but then he wouldn't be allowed to copy the eeprom in the other case. > or reverse engineer it > without encountering any license agreements involving the firmware. I don't see how that's different either. In what way could a license agreement prevent reverse engineering when the firmware is on CD, that could not be equally valid or invalid if the license agreement were applied directly to the hardware?