Mary Yugo asked Sean True:
The deal with Rossi sounds much more like an OEM contract, and they are very likely to have done some diligence on it. Just the risk of adverse PR (which they are already experiencing, I suspect) would require a reasonable return on the cost of the perceived risk.What due diligence do you think they did? And how do you know?
True does not work at NI. Obviously he does not "know." Neither do I. What True and I are saying is that the public relations offices and large corporations are usually careful about controversial subjects and press releases. That has been our experience.
And whose word are we relying on about the need to label the panel with the maker's logo?
Trisha McDonell, Corporate PR Manager, National Instruments. Unless that e-mail was forged by David Ledin, which I doubt.
Yes, I read the peswiki.com <http://peswiki.com> statement that NI approved their writeup. Maybe they didn't read it as carefully as they should have.
Or maybe they know a lot more than you do.
If the contract with NI is the best available evidence that Rossi's kludge works, that's a pretty sad commentary.
It is not the best evidence of that. The laws of thermodynamics are the best evidence.
On the other hand, if NI conducted independent tests of it, that would be very interesting. However, nothing I read remotely suggests that.
Then you are not very knowledgeable about corporations. - Jed
