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Ah, so that changes things bit. On one hand Lionel would have to do the engineering work in order to enable its CAB-3 to run SCS locomotives, BUT, while TMCC commands are open to the public, DCS commands are not, so if Lionel wanted to do the engineering work to run DCS with the CAB-3, MTH will not allow it for proprietary reasons.

While MTH may have had access to the TMCC commands they still incurred considerable cost developing software to wrap those commands in some logical way.

Even with purchasing a license from MTH there is/would be considerable work required to produce a software package that works. That is two major costs.

The situation with MTH licensing and TMCC open source proves the adage that in business it is not always best to be first.

EDIT: my apologies if I've confused Legacy and TMCC. MTH can only talk TMCC to Legacy base.

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