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[psxphill]

I am paid to design and implement solutions that enables and allows research and education to take place in ways and locations where it has not been possible before.

So if you did a design and your company decided to not pay you but use it anyway, you'd still have the design so you wouldn't mind not being paid?

[psxphill]

So if i can make a p96 driver without the sdk, i am doing something illegal ?

AFAIK possibly in the EU, but not in the US.

[psxphill]

If you want to survive as a good software engineer these days, you make sure that your creations are open source so that your customers - both those who paid, and those who just picked it up - can participate and improve the product,

Absolute FUD. Most software engineers can't survive by giving their work away for free. It works well for hobby projects and there are some people who get paid to do their hobby & some people are able to sell themselves as consultants.

Open source is a religion and like all good religions it is based on faith and not facts. If the commercial sector embraces open source more then expect to see a lot of good software engineers moving into other careers.