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MSO2000 Application module hack
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iRad:

--- Quote from: free_electron on August 06, 2014, 08:40:21 pm ---Then again , if i post a picture of my house key on the internet and someone files a blank in that shape that does not give him the right to get into my house with it and make off with a bunch of stuff. However .. the judge may throw it out because i did not use caution protecting my key. leaving stuff in plain sight in a car .. don't cry if it gets burglarized. you could actually get sued because you are enticing ...

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As stories go...
But you put the stuff from your house into a box, and you had a garage sale and sold the box with the stuff inside to someone. You also put inside the box another hidden but locked box with other stuff inside it. And you made a feeble effort to hide the key to that hidden box, but in a public place. Now the person who bought your box figures out how to open that hidden box because they found the key you failed to hide well, in a public place. They did not have to trespass into your house to take that key. And they certainly took nothing from your house that you did not sell them...
firewalker:
I could use the key I made to enter your house, watch tv etc. Without messing or stealing anything. I considered the photo of the key as an invitation to your house.

The machine I buy is mine to play with. The sharing of the trick I learned is something different.

Alexander.
mikeselectricstuff:

--- Quote from: free_electron on August 06, 2014, 08:40:21 pm ---
Second : you do not have a licence to use that software, even if it came pre-installed
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<assuming I'd bought this scope>
Unlike most PC software, where there is a license agreement shown at install,
I did not agree to any terms that stated I needed a license to use the software.
Nowhere did it explicitly say I was not allowed to use it.
Therefore I do not need a license. If I can make it work, I can use it.
 If, for example, there was extra memory fitted that could be enabled by removing a jumper, I don't think anyone could argue that doing so, or telling others how to, was in any way wrong.
It's a scope, not a general purpose computer. The fact that certain functions are implemented in software is irrelevant.

free_electron:

--- Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on August 06, 2014, 10:23:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: free_electron on August 06, 2014, 08:40:21 pm ---
Second : you do not have a licence to use that software, even if it came pre-installed
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<assuming I'd bought this scope>
Unlike most PC software, where there is a license agreement shown at install,
I did not agree to any terms that stated I needed a license to use the software.
Nowhere did it explicitly say I was not allowed to use it.
Therefore I do not need a license. If I can make it work, I can use it.
 If, for example, there was extra memory fitted that could be enabled by removing a jumper, I don't think anyone could argue that doing so, or telling others how to, was in any way wrong.
It's a scope, not a general purpose computer. The fact that certain functions are implemented in software is irrelevant.

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you may want to read the users manual of the machine... i'm willing to bet there is a software licencing agreement in it in the terms of 'if you power it up , you agree to it ...' and 'you will not reverse engineer , yadda yadda ...'
Stonent:
It's not much different than what IBM does on their mainframes.  They send a much better one than you order but the software is configured to ignore all the extra hardware.  Then when you need it, you call them up and they unlock the extra functionality with no need to take the system down.
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