[A83] Re: Color Calculators
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[A83] Re: Color Calculators
> Its ok for you to do it, but it might not be legal to distribute
information
> about how to reverse engineer the product and bypass protections or worse,
> distribute program to do it for you. I don't mean to paint TI as a big
evil
> corporation, they are simply trying to ensure the quality of their product
> but... Even if all this were legal, keep in mind a large corporation may
not
> win a lawsuit but one could still make your life hell.
>
> Think about it...if students started walking into class with TI-linux or
> something instead of TIOS then teaching using ti calculators would be that
> much more difficult. Sure the smart students would know how to use it but
> surely it would trickle down to others eventually. Students and teachers
> would both freak out... teachers always a little weary of the unknown...
> students crying because they can't do what they need to do on a test or
> theres a bug(oh crap!) in a math routine. This would of course be the
fault
> of the stupid student not teachers, not TI, not the programmers but it
would
> cause much hassle that wasn't necessary with other calculator brands.
> Patching an OS could lead to horrible possibilities... looks and feels
like
> the tios to the unsuspecting student but who knows what code might be
> lurking on rompage 9. Once teacher support of TI falls, their sales fall.
> Its pretty nice having one dominant platform, isn't it? I think it makes
> life simpler in class and out.
you got a point here. But would it really be this bad and wide spread?
Normally pupils only have the original OS on their calc. At my school, most
of the students still have TI-OS 1.10. It also depends on the difficulty of
putting a new OS on the calc of course. If a hardware hack would be
required, only a few guys could do it. If it's a software only solution,
there could be made viruses and all that stuff probably, and TI could
potentially lose lots of their customers.
Groeten,
Ronald Teune
--
If you tell the truth you don't
have to remember anything.
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