@lxo @freetar @Suiseiseki @mjg59

> I suppose people would make that assumption because so much hardware is made to not be modified.

Really, though? Cars get modded, clothes get altered, furniture gets reupholstered, white goods get repaired with pattern parts, bicycles get upgrades, houses get extended ... seems to me that computers (and, to an extent, consumer electronics generally) are the outlier here.

Maybe I can't directly alter the software in the ROM in the ECU that controls the fuelling for my motorbike, because it's ROM. But that scarcely makes a difference to my overall objective: I can swap it for a different ROM (or an EEPROM) with slightly different software. It would still be considered as modifying the bike, and it would still be simpler if I could read the source code that the ROM was produced from.