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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] ITEAD?
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On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire AT neurotica DOT com> wrote:
> On 05/20/2013 03:19 AM, Atommann wrote:
>>>   Ahh ok, I've purchased a few things from Seeed; they've done right by me
>>> thus far.  I'll give them a shot as well.  Thanks for the info!
>>
>> There's another PCB supplier in Shenzhen, it is hackvana.com
>> He provides good service in English.
>>
>> The guy behind hackvana is Mitch Davis who is a good hacker from Melbourne.
>
>   Neat!
>
>   Should I have any concerns about "IP harvesting" with these Chinese
> outfits?  (probably not with the Aussie gent, I'd assume..)

It's always a possibility.
I've had the rather surreal experience of walking through a plant room
in China and seeing a PCA that I'd designed, but suddenly realising
that it wasn't my design but something derived from it.  When I asked
about it, one of the engineers of our "partner" company was very happy
to explain how he'd modified it to give better linearity and how it
was so much cheaper for them to make it for themselves instead of
buying it from Australia !
The management of the company I was working for didn't seem to care,
they said that my PCA was just a small component in a very big deal
and we shouldn't jeopardise that by making a fuss.  This same company
went bust within two years, go figure.

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