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Evidence by the fact that the Pansat 2500A and Fortec Lifetime Ultra are the exact same receiver (board) made by (I think) Hundai, it follows that the code is developed overseas by the same batch of coders.
If you look at the $130 retail price point, there can not be too much profit for Fortec to pay much for code, much less do it in house.
Even if they had $30 profit after expenses (no way) it would take a bunch of sales to pay the programmer.
Pure speculation, but I bet they buy the code customised to their brand, and have very little input as to bug fixes or special features.
Even Microsoft is held hostage to some extent by marketing modules (e.g. Hyperterm and others) rather than writing.
Larry
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