Originally Posted by foreigneRS

you take everything so literally...

don't try and make out that the software you have is anything special. i have a copy here that's been floating about for years being swapped on floppy disks back in the day.

i'm not necessarily saying that your copy was downloaded from the internet, but one could download it tonight if one wanted.

i'm also not necessarily saying that your eprom programmer was bought off ebay, but they certainly can be for a few quid, so again it's something that any tom, dick or harry could set themselves up to do.



i've got several copied chips here as well, whoop di do. does that make me any better at mapping because i've had access to other people's work and copied it? no, just like it doesn't make me a musician if i have load of mp3s.

like i said before, i made a utility to allow easier editing of maps and break points than is possible with the TDR software and have used that to make changes to maps and burn them to chips for my own use. i think that makes me qualified enough to talk about it with some authority, but i wouldn't ever dream of selling them under the guise of being a professional mapper.

i was also involved in developments with RPLabs that have led to products and services that Stu is now selling that go way beyond what the original weber hardware and associated software were ever designed to do, so i do know a little bit about some of this stuff



that is true to some extent, and as you say yourself, people who didn't want to pay or wait for a professional map might well be happy with that kind of attitude and service, but i wouldn't.