Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!hedley
From: hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sound Digitizers
Message-ID: <3092@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 88 17:10:22 GMT
References: <2283@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <2283@crash.cts.com> haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) writes:
>steelie@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Jim Howard) writes:
>>>From recent postings on the net, I've been led to believe that
>>some of the major sound digitizers (not naming any names), are
>>doing their best to conceal their electronics, by use of acrylic
>>block surrounding the components, to filing the serial numbers
>>off the chips.  Then I ask, why would anyone go to such lengths
>>to hide the actual workings of a device, except for the possibilty
>>that the user could build his own for a lesser sum of money by
>
>        I don't think they really are trying to keep the individual from
>copying the design, rather they wish to make a competetor do their own
>design work.  After all, if a rival company has no design costs, they could
>aquire half the market just by producing the units and selling them at
>the same price.  
>
>
Maybe they put alot of work into the software too. This way, their
dongle is protected, so their software investment is protected.

Hedley