Pcmhammer got a lot of code from my ls1-flash free which took me years to figure out. viewtopic.php?f=42&t=3111persingc wrote:I was always curious as to how much if any source code lsdroid and pcmhammer have in common.
I managed to get the write routines working with a little help from Dimented24x7 in my private codebase, but my code wasn't properly multi-threaded and it'd crash if you held the window up with the mouse. I gave that codebase (windows code, and working asm kernels one for read, one for write) to NSFW after he stuck firm to wanting the code for pcmhammer to be open source (I was worried it'd be stolen, but came around to his line of thinking) and with his better windows development skills and my working code base we re-implemented it as a proper GPL OO windows app. He also wanted the kernel to C so that got re-written as one kernel too.
The result of this, is that I totally understand where Tazzi is coming from. Hes not a big company, not going to make serious money, and hes keeping it affordable for the kids in the backyard with their junkyard cars on newer pcms. Thats a huge win, I dont think many understand the skills and the time it takes to do original work. Unfortunately I think we are past the era of 1 person can write an app in their spare time for free. This seems to be a workable solution going forward to the more complex generation of newer cars. I for one am interested to see how it goes. And it absolutely does not mean other people cant write their own things, open source or not, free or not. The more people doing things the better.