I can vouch for enginuity. I got a snowman tune and love it. As far as the safety goes, the safety and reliability depend on the car and the driver. You cannot blame a tuner for failing parts or you beating the crap out of your car. One of the main benefits of using a reflashing software is it will still retain the built in safety functions.

I also feel the only service I should pay for is the tuner, not the license. $600 is a lot to pay for something you can't hold onto. At least with cobb, and utec, when you are done with it you can sell it to someone else. So I don't see why ecutek is getting so upset, because they have not developed anything that is better than their competition. Instead of crying about it they should have thought about a way to beat their competitors. If somebody wants to use their time and knowledge to develop a free software for all to use, so be it, but you still have to find someone to tune it. Which is really what you are paying for to begin with.

No matter what business you are in there will always be someone who comes along and tries to do things cheaper, better, or faster.