[sdiy] Those darned Casio chips rant

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 24 November 2004 02:22 pm, Harry Bissell Jr wrote:

> My nominee for 'company of the year' is Korg... who
> shared the Keio-35 IC schematic and test documents
> with Martin Czech (for our enlightenment).  There was a
> single line of text in the letter promising that
> should someone use this information for commercial
> gain, Korg would reserve the right to prosecute.
> afaik, no one has attempted to do this. My hats off to
> this most reputable and respected company.

Heh.

Korg was one of the companies we dealt with,  back when we had our shop open.   
Third on my sh*tlist is E-mu,  who decided that they were going to go from a 
fair number of service centers in the country to "regional" ones,  cutting us 
out of the picture.  I'm just glad I didn't have much invested in there.  I 
know the guy who got it and he's okay by me,  and I'm sure that he wouldn't 
have intended to screw the rest of us out of business... Second is Yamaha,  
who,  when things got real tight toward the end there wouldn't hang in and 
allow us to offset out parts account with warranty claims,  something I'd 
been doing with them for maybe 15 years,  but instead got hard-nosed about it 
-- and then only _after_ we returned some excess inventory to them told us 
there would be a "re-stocking charge" thereby cutting the benefit to the 
picture,  if they had said something beforehand we'd have done things a 
little differently.  But Korg,  they're on the top of the list.  Not only did 
they never ever seem to be completely unable to get their records 
straightened out when it came to us,  but they got more and more hard-nosed 
about it until we closed.  I still have a file folder someplace that's a good 
couple of inches thick,  with just that stuff in it.  And I brought it with 
me,  when they brought a legal action against us to try and collect,  since 
according to my figures _they_ owed _us_ about $1000 or so,  contrary to 
their statements and such.  I never did find out if that judge would have 
been willing to wade through all that paper,  as their lawyer never showed,  
so I won that one by default.