[sdiy] Discrete OTA

[David G Dixon]

> In a DIY context then yes that can work.  But from a business 
> perspective you would be folly to reveal too much to your competitors.
> Not every one out there is nice and fluffy.  To someone 
> skilled in the art it wouldn't take long to work out enough 
> details to understand what you're doing.  And while you could 
> argue that once your latest product is on the market your 
> competitor can reverse-engineer it, why make life easy for 
> them, or give them a headstart?
> 
> Definitely don't post schematics that you care about, no 
> matter what wording you put on them.

This.  I'd be happy for DIY folks to build my designs, and in fact I sell
boards for most of them (I've never gotten around to doing my own board for
the Rubicon, because I have never found the time).  So far, everyone with
whom I've shared my schematics has been very trustworthy with them.  My main
issue is that the livelihoods of several people partly depend on their
ability to build and sell the designs which I have licensed to them.

If you want to know what it feels like to have a design ripped off, just ask
Ian Fritz.  If you want to know what it feels like to come under attack from
the entire modular synth community because you ripped off someone's design,
just ask the guy who ripped Ian off.  How did that happen?  Ian mistakenly
put a schematic on the web.