DM42 is now open-source!

[andylithia]

I don't think getting copied will be the case. As an average Chinese student, I should note that today nearly every middle school student, high school student, and university student have a genuine Casio or a licensed OEM Casio or a fake Casio here. The market for Casio scientific is ever so vibrant in the Chinese education market, that's why the copyright-ignorant people here copied it by spending hundreds of hours reading the mask ROM dieshot, do all sorts of decapping and hacking to obtain the code (Fun fact: you can see people hanging ADs of decapping and chip level reverse engineering on their balcony in the inner streets of Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen) or just by stealing the code from the production line at a risk of getting sued. That's pathetic, disliked by the educated people here, changing slowly, but unfortunately will still be there for the years to come.

However, DM42 isn't, and will never be the case. The scale of vintage HP community is extremely small here in China (China was never the market for high-end HP handhelds). And anyone who's in the Chinese HP community has well above average education level. We will just spit on the shameless clones and buy the genuine one.