On Jun 7, 6:58 pm, Nicholas Stock <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately, one of the pitfalls of 'outsourcing'?
You'd hope that any reputable PCB house would see it as pretty detrimental to their business model if they got a reputation for leaking customers' designs. The more low-tech possibility is that the rip-off merchant bought a kit from the original designer and then copied the PCB. I assume these are kits built around micro-controllers, right? If so, how did they replcate the firmware? Trivial if they got hold of an original controller without code protection, but much more concerning if they would have had to crack it. Obviously one assumes that organisations with significant resources could crack a protected PIC or AVR, but it'd be pretty worrying if that kind of technology was within reach of the casual eBay nixie clock rip-off artist. This jogs my memory about something that happened just after I started selling my single digit bargraph clock. An eBay buyer from Hong Kong mailed me asking to send a PDF of the assembly and owner manual. I politely declined and suggested he obtain one by buying a clock. Never did hear from him again... Jon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
