[A83] Re: 83p os
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[A83] Re: 83p os
I had not thought of people pirating apps. Restricting OS development
seems to be completely justified by that alone!
Matthew Marshall
On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 23:05:28 +0200 (MEST) robvanwijk@gmx.net writes:
> > I had this discussion with their head of app/etc development once.
> >
> > But they never brought up third-party OS systems, but they develop
> what is
> > best for them, if it's all internal, without an ability to hook
> in
> > external
> > stuff, then they use it. Apps are what they consider the extent
> of tying
> > into their system.
> >
> > They originally fought user-programs because they just thought it
> would
> > hurt
> > them/abuse them, but later they realize it was quite the opposite
> and gave
> > up trying to get rid of them. I'm sure half the stuff you think
> is
> > against
> > you is just the developers having free-will to design how they
> want. Some
> > might be though, depends on the system.
> >
> > But, they like to keep costs down I'm sure and redoing current
> systems to
> > help developers out of their scope isn't cost effective, but
> working on
> > new
> > calculators is.
> >
> > corey
> >
>
> All they'd have to do is release the OS key, just like they released
> the
> 0104
> key. Not that I think they will, but the point is, it doesn't cost
> them
> money.
> Especially when dealing with OSes (more so than with apps), if
> you're gonna
> make one, you know what you're doing. Besides, OS developers don't
> need
> development guides (that are probably expensive to make), because
> they
> start from scratch.
> I think their problem is with safety; once you load an OS, you have
> total
> and
> completely unrestricted access to the entire calc. This would
> include the
> flash
> page with the certificates. Also, if they'd release the OS key,
> people could
> simply modify TI OS (which would be illegal, but how do you stop
> them?) so
> it won't check for valid certificates, then people don't need to buy
> their
> apps
> anymore. Another potential problem is people who add new
> functionality to
> the calc, that isn't allowed on tests. Then teachers would not trust
> the
> 83's,
> which would severly hurt TI's income.
>
> Rob van Wijk
>
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