Izaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >The calculus here has little to do with unit profit margins. It has >everything to do with mitigating product liability suits, recalls, and bad >press. (You won't read a report of "Chiwonkistan Knock-off Battery Destroys >WidgetCo Laptop". You'll read the report "WidgetCo Laptop Catches Fire.")
The device is also sold for use in other high-profit-margin items like laser printer toner cartridges and ink tanks. While I can certainly see the point of your argument as applied to batteries, I haven't heard of too many toner cartridges exploding recently, and given the extensive bad press given to dubious tactics like "starter cartridges" I don't think the printer manufacturers are that worried about publicity issues (the printer ink/toner market is definitely a racket, and has been documented in some detail elsewhere). Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
