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| Cerebus:
That's not however what Farringdon was claiming our consensus agreement to, which was companies keeping their schematics secret from the engineers who work for them. That's a far cry from keeping them out of he hands of the great unwashed, which is what you're talking about. One is paranoia, the other is normal, if unhelpful, commercial practice nowadays. |
| vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on October 30, 2021, 12:10:39 pm ---That's not however what Farringdon was claiming our consensus agreement to, which was companies keeping their schematics secret from the engineers who work for them. That's a far cry from keeping them out of he hands of the great unwashed, which is what you're talking about. One is paranoia, the other is normal, if unhelpful, commercial practice nowadays. --- End quote --- Indeed, my last posting is more about their attitude to "the great unwashed" (formerly known as "customers"), but my first one on this thread (reply#6) referred to a similar situation as that the OP described. In both cases, it is silliness, rather than paranoia, where both "lay" people, & "half-baked" technical people have delusions of grandeur about their product. A major industry is not going to take it kindly if a manufacturer on the other side of the world, due to such a policy refuses technical details necessary for the repair of revenue producing equipment. I have seen this happen, and as a result, poor information availability has relegated a company to the "last choice" list when it comes to buying new equipment. |
| Faringdon:
Thanks for all replies... So I must admit , British electronics co’s, (in fact, all Western Electronics companies) could massively benefit by not wasting time patenting bog standard schematics. |
| RJSV:
When I worked at the world's largest POT CLUB the front office routinely shredded some bogus 'phone call records', full of useless crap (sounds a lot like a few posts back). Per Dennis (RIP), the CEO: No computers to be involved in vendor transactions. Some 5 story's, 25,000 SQ ft. retail nr downtown San Francisco. Front office doors had some 'Triple Pickproof' high end locks; whatever that is. Organizations do things, for reasons, basic instinct in presence of advesarys, I guess. |
| T3sl4co1l:
Probably relevant: https://graphthinking.blogspot.com/2021/09/why-is-everything-so-hard-in-large.html Tim |
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