That's a gray area. I'd want a formal legal opinion before using someone's name.
I would have guessed he got permission from above.
I have printed off the email for future use and at least that shows I made a reasonable effort to get permission to use the circuit.
Anyway, I have made 20 changes to components and circuit. I also completely reworked the pcb so it can hardly now be called a copy.
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As I said in an earlier post, there is a specific exemption in EU law for reverse engineering for the purpose of interfacing. If I sell a widget then you can reverse engineer it for the purpose of designing and selling an add-on to it. You can't reverse engineer it for the purpose of selling a copy of my widget. You can reverse engineer it for the purpose of selling something which does the same function, but I might want to investigate whether any copying took place. I am sure these reverse engineering labs all say that their services are intended for add-ons and not copyright infringment, just as essay mills all say that their services are intended to help students learn how to write good essays rather than cheat.scott wurcer said:
As I keep saying, in Europe it has been traditional to rely on copyright protection in some situations where elsewhere people would use a patent. Maybe we were naive; perhaps we thought that as we used copyright protection everyone else would respect that even in situations where their tradition was to use patents.
Okay SY
A case site for you. Way back in the disco era I worked for a chain of discos owned by a fellow who headed Lambert-Brussels Real Estate among other interests. His boss also produced cases and as they were quite impressive I bought some and have most of one left. Mouton Rothschild 1972! Now does that impress you?
A case site for you. Way back in the disco era I worked for a chain of discos owned by a fellow who headed Lambert-Brussels Real Estate among other interests. His boss also produced cases and as they were quite impressive I bought some and have most of one left. Mouton Rothschild 1972! Now does that impress you?
Nigel, that's an assumption. You know what it means to "assume"?
That's "***-u-me".
I'd not guess that he asked anyone.
If you want to nail it, you need to get the same answer from a senior executive, or better still from their attorney.
But if you have materially changed the circuit, then more or less ur home free. Consider changing the way that a LTP is fed from the top and bottom. That ought to be enough to be called a different design, imo. etc.
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Lousy vintage and from a down period in their history. So... no.
Well, I have consumed most of the other stuff, but contrary to your opinion the 72 was quite good. I suspect you are confusing it with the Mouton Cadet. I still have one bottle of the 82 considered one of the best.
I do have a bit of other Claret that should be good around 2040, among other cases of bad grape juice.
(I have been putting wine away since the mid 70's and know where a really marvelous cellar is that will be closing soon and not going to bid.)
Not really, no.
The '82 is a different animal- quite good. The '72 sells for about 1/4 the price of current release (2010) and 1/10 the price of '82.I don't think I'll be good by 2040, so I don't even buy green bananas.
$11 at compounded interest and inflation adjusted?
Auction price now is ~$150-170, meaning about $120 net to you. It's about a push, economically. If you like it, drink it.
If I were opening a bottle tonight and wanted to keep the cost on the low end, but was otherwise unrestricted, I'd be looking in places other than Bordeaux. A nice J-P Brun Beaujolais, for example, or one of Steve Edmunds's delicious Gamays.
Auction price now is ~$150-170, meaning about $120 net to you. It's about a push, economically. If you like it, drink it.
If I were opening a bottle tonight and wanted to keep the cost on the low end, but was otherwise unrestricted, I'd be looking in places other than Bordeaux. A nice J-P Brun Beaujolais, for example, or one of Steve Edmunds's delicious Gamays.
I bought a case of 1972 Pichon Lalande for $36 and used 1/2 of it to poach cherries for cherries jubilee over the years. The wine was a pale version of what they could produce in a good vintage. The problem with buying wines in the 70's was that the same $11 could buy a fully mature wine from a great vintage right off the shelf.
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