Any way let philips live with their policies .
That, fortunately is no only Philips. Atmel and others has now - horray - withdrawn parallel programming info from their datasheets for all ICP chips.
When parallel programmingt info was in the datasheets 50% of the forum questions came down to a faulty kitchen table programmer after lenghty discussions. To build a reliable parallel programmer you need instrumentation that only those that would not even dream of building one, have (logic analyzer, scope, noise generator etc).
There are schematics of "parallel programmers" floating around on the net and most of them ar so marginal that of you use green wire instead of red they will fail.
Erik