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Jinx

 From what I hear, it was petty abuse.  No specifics from Microchip.  Som=
e=20
guy figures it's easier (read cheaper) to round up the family and=20
neighbours, and have each submit a sample request on his behalf.  No doub=
t=20
it's not the silicon MC is concerned about, but the direct shipping costs=
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to this neck of the woods.

At 2003/07/20 11:58 +1200, you wrote:

> > We were officially informed by Microchip that the reason why the
> > service  was withdrawn from South Africa was due to abuse of the
> > system
>
>Did they cite any specific abuse ? Must be significant numbers
>relative to normal stock movements. And Microchip claim, ISTR,
>that they are the leading supplier of micros so how big an abuse
>are we talking ? Thousands ? Millions ? By whom ?
>
>Is there some underground network of AVR Special Forces trying
>to cripple MC by depleting their stock through sample requsts ?

Motorola, maybe??


>Don't they have procedures to distinguish between legitimate and
>"abusive" sampling ? If you could that is

This type of info is possible run through the network of local MC people


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