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From: bradb@ai.toronto.edu (Brad Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Ethics of crippler circuitry
Message-ID: <89Feb19.003107est.10803@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 89 05:30:59 GMT
References: <4602@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> <79700020@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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In article <79700020@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>1.  What are the ethics of creating a service monopoly?
>
>Apple seems to do this.  Apple's only repair is "replace the logic
>card" ($300-$600).  Hence, for many simple problems (e.g. custom chip
>burnout) it's $300-$600.

Right.  IBM sure does this on their PCs.  They claim it's not worth it
to repair a board, and in the case of one of those fancy surface-mount
PC boards they *might* be right.  Guess one of the reasons why I will
never buy an IBM PC -- I'm typing this on a nice 12MHz AT clone with
socketed chips...

					(-:  Brad Brown  :-)
					bradb@ai.toronto.edu