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Re: gEDA-user: Open hardware talk by IBM at NYLUG (New York, NY, USA)



On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:42:21 -0400 (EDT)
sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson) wrote:

> Nowadays, I almost never see a schematic -- or any other hard
> technical information -- in any published operators manuals, even for
> extremely high-tech equipment.  (I *do* usually see 20 pages of hazard
> warnings in scores of different languages.)  I don't think it's a good
> thing that we no longer include schematics in manuals.  I think it's
> part of the ongoing land-grab for so-called IP, a trend which I find
> disturbing, and bad for society in general (although perhaps
> beneficial for the individual companies who are grabbing the IP).
> That is to say, manufacturers are working to close their hardware
> designs as much as possible.  Perhaps Dr. IBM VC will argue that
> publishing info about your hardware's inner workings is a good thing?
> But I shouldn't speculate . . . .

RANE, the pro audio company gives schematics too. Just to add. They also provide technical notes, calculations, etc...

www.rane.com

Levente

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