Pup wrote:They can't have different specs, since that would mean more than one homologated engine, but that doesn't mean that Mercedes couldn't still keep the best engines for themselves. Every part has a tolerance, and one can imagine that they'd use the parts with the least deviation to build their own engines, and the parts that are closer to the limit of the allowed tolerance would go to their customers. Of course, who gets those engines might change depending on the standings at any given time.
The only way around that is if the engines are handed out at random, like the tires.
I did not have "the engine" in mind. Rather the electric power delivery or absorption.
Software is proprietary correct?
Well, need I say more? It could be a small code difference, or perhaps utilization in programming of an existing function that only MB knows about. Software code would be impossible to police.
I run a business and to this day I am not certain, that the Adwords utility I use takes my money in an honest way for each click of "some customer". I have no way to verify this besides just believing that it does. How much is Google worth?
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