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From: hassell@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Christopher Hassell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Ethics of crippler circuitry
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Date: 9 Feb 89 22:34:14 GMT
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In article <4602@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> jackg@tekirl.LABS.TEK.COM (Jack Gjovaag) writes:
# In article <11630010@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> ham@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Bob Hamilton) writes:
# 
# >"Pulling out the slow-down boards" is an old IBM marketing tactic.  When I
# >worked at Memorex, I heard IBM did it when we upgraded one of the CPU's in
# >the data center.  I leave it as an exercise for the reader to characterize
# >the ethics of a company which would build slow-down boards into its
# >products in the first place.
# 
# The ethics of adding "crippling" circuitry to an otherwise high
# performance machine to fill a gap in a product line is not at all
# clear to me.  It certainly seems absurd if we expect that the

But the car manufacturers do that all the time, don't they (almost).
RE-naming cars for different coasts, naming cars differently for added options
on others...  Madison Avenue is always finding ways to make "just-the-right-
-level" appear to exist for any person out there.

#   Jack Gjovaag
#   Tek Labs

And it's likely to stay that way for no good reason :->
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