[sdiy] Those darned Casio chips rant

[Senso]

>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.
>
>Third on my sh*tlist is E-mu
>Second is Yamaha,
>But Korg,  they're on the top of the list
<snip>

My all-time #1 is Ensoniq, never ever supplying any information or 
parts whatsoever and being unbelievably arrogant on top of that.
After that the Japanese companies seem to be fighting for a 2nd 
place, with the exclusion of Roland. They still do what they can, 
even for equipment older than 20 years. Hats off!

Senso



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