China is relevant because US trademark and copyright laws are not practically enforceable by a tiny firm against Chinese businesses selling through the internet (also because most electronics are built in China). Bay Area is relevant because paying a team of several full-time engineers several years of salary to build the software is expensive here.
Saleae could implement more intrusive hardware locks to prevent their software from working with generic devices. (And I think they’ll be forced to do that in the future.) Maybe you’re right that they deserve to fail, but that would be a pretty sad outcome for all the hobbyists and junior EEs who benefit greatly from their fantastic software (including you it sounds like).
Apple doesn’t go after hobbyists self-building Hackintoshes because it’s a vanishingly small percentage of their customer base and it’s not worth their trouble. As they exist currently, Hackintoshes cost Apple almost nothing.
However, if someone starts selling ready-to-go Hackintoshes direct to customers under the brand name “Apple Mac”, Apple legal is going to come down on them like a ton of bricks, sic the FTC on them, get some senators involved, or whatever it takes. Look how far they went after Samsung for copying iPhone hardware and software features.
I guess every company without a few hundred billion dollars of cash holdings and thousands of lawyers now counts as “bad at capitalism”? Okay.
> I have one of the plastic, "counterfeit" knockoffs, and it works great. [...] I posit it is simply racism that you offer.
Do you use Saleae’s software with it? If so, I posit that you simply lack any ethical standards. There, isn’t it fun to make judgmental personal attacks without knowing anything about a person?
Racism? Sheesh.
Edit: looking at the length of my response here, I guess you trolled me pretty effectively. Kudos.
Saleae could implement more intrusive hardware locks to prevent their software from working with generic devices. (And I think they’ll be forced to do that in the future.) Maybe you’re right that they deserve to fail, but that would be a pretty sad outcome for all the hobbyists and junior EEs who benefit greatly from their fantastic software (including you it sounds like).
Apple doesn’t go after hobbyists self-building Hackintoshes because it’s a vanishingly small percentage of their customer base and it’s not worth their trouble. As they exist currently, Hackintoshes cost Apple almost nothing.
However, if someone starts selling ready-to-go Hackintoshes direct to customers under the brand name “Apple Mac”, Apple legal is going to come down on them like a ton of bricks, sic the FTC on them, get some senators involved, or whatever it takes. Look how far they went after Samsung for copying iPhone hardware and software features.
I guess every company without a few hundred billion dollars of cash holdings and thousands of lawyers now counts as “bad at capitalism”? Okay.
> I have one of the plastic, "counterfeit" knockoffs, and it works great. [...] I posit it is simply racism that you offer.
Do you use Saleae’s software with it? If so, I posit that you simply lack any ethical standards. There, isn’t it fun to make judgmental personal attacks without knowing anything about a person?
Racism? Sheesh.
Edit: looking at the length of my response here, I guess you trolled me pretty effectively. Kudos.