Date   : Thu, 05 Aug 2004 22:03:37 +0100
From   : "Andrew Chesterton" <andrew.chesterton@...>
Subject: Re: GoMMC cards

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:56:40 +0100 (BST), "F. Haroon"
<haroonnet2002@...> wrote:

>>But at some stage you will run out of cards  - or run out of specific
>>parts.  Why will you be upping the price?  Anyway, when you do run out,
>>of parts, will you then provide us with the schematic?  When I do get
>>the opportunity, I will have a go at producing the cards from the
>>shematic.  Or someone else on the list will perhaps.

>How many hints do you need, to understand that none of this is
>ever going to happen ? Why do you even expect it to ?


>John Kortink

I can understand why Fiaz is asking for schematics.
You have designed a really useful addition to the BBC which you are offering
for sale at a not insignificant cost that you are flatly refusing to support
now or in the future.
You are also refusing to release the design into the public domain to allow
people to support it themselves or in Fiaz's case continue the production
run, which you obviously don't want to do.
I personally am surprised that you have sold any at all, I wouldn't buy
anything without some form of support or a copy of the design to support it
myself.
Next thing, you will be threatening to sue anybody who reverse engineers the
design in order to help somebody with a broken one who needs it fixing!

This list is all about sharing, Hardware, Software, Knowledge and Experience
in order to keep a very important piece of computing history alive and
kicking. This appears to be something that you haven't quite realised yet!

Andrew.