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By law you also can&#x27;t grab the higher end tig welder next to it.<p>Your argument seems to be essentially &quot;if they want to do this, they should have to produce identical models with slightly different firmware and give them different skus and blah blah blah blah blah&quot;<p>That seems pretty silly.<p>These are market segmentation restrictions, they would normally just do what i suggested, and produce models with identical insides except for the firmware rom.<p>Why force them to do that, exactly?
IE what grand purpose does it serve?<p>This is, IMHO, very different from &quot;you&#x27;ve made it illegal for me to play with my phone that i own&quot;, because you don&#x27;t want to put your stuff on it or mess with the hardware using your software, you just want to not pay for the stuff they wrote.<p>If you want to install your own firmware on the tig welder hardware, that isn&#x27;t theirs, and you wrote, awesome, that sounds great. I&#x27;ll support you to death.