are you saying that:

1. I release my reverse-engineered software to the public? Well, I could do that but won't that be illegal? And tantamount to criminal prosecution? Agreed, that I could do that in thousands of possible ways so that no one could trace me, but even then I don't want to do that.

2. About the actual act of 'reverse-engineering' the piece of software, I can't comment on it further since this is a public forum and I have a right to be silent since anything I say can be used in a court of justice ;-)

3. I already made a post in the manufacturer's 'support' forum and offered to port their software over linux, free of charge. No response from them so far.

4. I agree, but I made a choice to use their product even though I knew that linux would probably not be supported in the near future. And I must admit, I am impressed by their quality of HW.

However, it is purely an academic venture that I was exploring the possibility of using linux as my 8051 development environment.

I imagine a development environment of svn-asem51-sdcc in conjunction with the 'ported' software would be cool to work with!

Looking forward to hear your comments.

regards,
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