On 28 Jun 2012, at 21:18, Tony Duell wrote:
I can rememrbr when you just had to ask for a data
sheet and it arrived
-- on paper -- the enxt day. No NDAs...
I imagine when you used to get data sheets delivered next day to your door with no NDAs
there probably weren't 100 Chinese companies waiting in the long grass to clone TI or
whoever products and beat them over the head with the price difference. NDAs in the
electronics industry are a sad but necessary result of the fact that you can't trust
anyone with your product data anymore unless you make some kind of allowance to sue them
when they steal it.
So yeah, while
it's not *ideal*, it's a lot more than I ever
expected the cyborg ultra-lawyers at Broadcom to approve.
That may be so, but it doesn't encourage me to buy the Rpi board...
So don't buy one. Non of use that have one (soon to be two and by the year out
probably at least five) will mind. Just quit beating us over the head with your opinion.
We get it already.
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