Cubic Dollars

[Robert Harris]

The question of your rights to hack GM or other ECU's vs the Manufacturers
boil down to two words -  Cubic Dollars.   If or when it is perceived by GM et
al to be in GM's interest to end the practice, it will end.   GM has
historically crushed competition without regard to anything other than it was
good for GM.  Count on it.

Start with sheer absolute weight of lawyers - how many thousand can you afford
to defend with?   Then if you do start to get an edge - how many cubic
lobbyist can you afford?  GM can and has had the law routinely changed to suit
GM.  

When it was in Bill Gates interest to crush OS-2, cheap counterfeit windows
flooded the market.  Now that it is not - the software police are out in force
and MS openly states that it intends to have the 100,000 $ prescribed by law
fines levied on individuals to end the practice.  Bill Gates can and is taking
everything including the house of anyone they catch.

Before you start to whine and snivel about rights - think campaign
contributions.  How many bucks to how many Klintonian officials campaigns can
you fatten vs GM.   Not fair?  - who said GM or life or God was fair?

And do not forget that the tax paid gnomes and drones of the evil empire
AmeriKa will gladly crush you with the full weight and force of law if it
pleases their masters.   Think not - remember Janet Reno's barbecue where 84
people found out what happens when thief religion was not BATF approved.

Am I cynical - absolutely.  Do I disapprove - absolutely NOT.   Do it, enjoy
the holiday - but don't be surprised when Cubic Dollars descend to end the
practice.

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