The RP2040 is running firmware. It is inside the mouse. It's now the mouse's firmware!
I get your point but I'm confident that if I had to lawyer up I would win this one :P
I get your point but I'm confident that if I had to lawyer up I would win this one :P
Many cheap mouse sensors these days are ultra integrated to the point they often even lack USB pullup resistors. If they could be reprogrammed to, say, add a pixel dump command that very few of them implement, that would be very interesting.
Your argument is more one of philosophy / law / BS than something anyone would take as true.
To be less academic: I don't think there is a mouse in this world where you can actually modify the firmware, because using flash memory for something this dirt cheap and with a functionality that hasn't changed for decades is out of the question, so this is probably the only way to do it...
(how I know: I managed to softbrick one - and reflash to working condition.)
Does the person buying a Civic capable of running 10X care? No. It's a 10X Civic. They've already crashed.