Re: Brinks Home Security files Civil Suit against Jim Rojas & www.tech-man.com

[Jim Rojas <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The firmware is the large chip. The eprom chip is the small 8 pin chip
which contains all the programming information.

Napco, Ademco, DSC, as well as many others generally use the same type
of configuration. As long as I don't screw around with the firmware
chip, there is no copyright infringment. The eprom on the other hand,
has no such copyright protection under the law.

Jim Rojas



Robert L Bass wrote:
>> They can huff and puff all they like.
>
> You're going to wipe the floor with them.  BTW, as to the tortious interference claim, that's also bogus.  Nowhere do they even
> allege that you have enticed any current customer to breach a contract with them.
>
> Erasing or over-writing firmware does not constitute copyright infringement any more than burning one of their manuals.  Since
> you're not copying and distributing the firmware there's no infringement.  If I understand things correctly, you receive a panel
> with the firmware intact, erase or modify the lockout code and send it back to it's (presumptive) owner.  That isn't a copyright
> infringement either since you're not holding the thing for sale.
>
> The allegation that by reselling a panel you are infringing a copyright on the "firmware" therein is also bogus since it is integral
> to the hardware.  That would be like Ford saying that by reselling it's cars you've stolen the copyrighted firmware in the engine
> computer.
>
> The biggest problem for you is going to be hiring a Texas lawyer and/or going there occasionally.  No one in his right mind would
> want to go there (let alone live there).
>
>