Mackie Cracks Pro Tools Code?

A bit puzzling, no doubt, but if you read between the lines of what is being said on this dark and mysterious video, it would appear that Mackie has...

written a driver (the Mackie Universal Driver V1.0) which makes an end run around the ProTools/Digidesign hardware protection that is the bridge from Digidesign or M-Audio hardware to M-Powered software. word from Mackie is that this driver has been in development for a year and a half and was written from the ground up--not backward engineered. While the Washington-based audio company did not officially work with Digidesign on making the new Mackie Onyx i Series mixers the audio hardware component of a Pro Tools LE system, the are reportedly "very open" to future talk and proceeding together. At the time of this writing, Avid (parent company of Digidesign) was "internally reviewing this information" and unable to comment officially.

The way we see it, there are only three ways this can go. 1) To court. 2) A sort of "arms race" with Digi changing some code with every ProTools update to specifically disable this driver and Mackie having to continually rewrtite its software or 3) a new day of open recording standards where everything works with everything else. You know, like MIDI. Guess which one we're rooting for at L2P?