> Thanks for pointing that out. They are welcome to
use whatever
> business/IP model they wish,
Yeah...and we are free to avoid whatever models we wish. :-)
I sent them mail saying "I would want documentatino on how to talk to
the hardware, because your GUI will not be suitable for me" (any UI
that's suitable to most of pretty much any market has an excellent
chance of being somewhere between unpleasant and unsable for me).
Of course, given that documentation, there's no need for any of their
software. Even if they're right that nearly nobody understands how to
go between flux patterns and data, that's fixable.
I'll
continue using [other things] to make images [...]
My feelings exactly.
Quite.
Document it enough I can write my own software to drive it, and I might
be interested in the hardware. I will not be interested in
undocumented hardware and, as mentioned above, I will not be interested
in the software (unless it's open sourced, and then only insofar as it
forms documentation on how to talk to the hardware).
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