John, I never thought of it that way. Great perspective! Thanks!
Doug Nix d...@mac.com “The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.” Viktor Frankl "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." Mahatma Gandhi On 7-December-2012, at 02:32, John Woodgate wrote: > Safety and EMC 3rd party testing costs are properly a marketing expense, > because they are incurred in order to be allowed on to the market. They are > not a charge on R&D, because the products work perfectly OK without the > testing. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <emcp...@radiusnorth.net> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com>