Russell McMahon wrote: > > Years later when the market tailed off due to advancing technology I > converted a number of K6's to K6L spec at no charge. At that stage > this didn't affect the market. > > A point to note is that in my case, and in many other cases, what is > being sold is a right to use intellectual property. The extra > capability represents extra preogram development work. The fact that > the code resides in the machine is relatively irrelevant. If people > don't want to pay their share of the development costs for the extra > facilities this allows them to not do so. The jumper is an IP enabler :-) > > Honest question: Does anyone have any moral or ethical problem with > the above scenario? It's not an uncommon tactic and completely reasonable IMO. There's no reason you shouldn't benefit from working smarter. The customer is paying for the functionality, not the parts count! David... -- ___________________________________________ David Duffy Audio Visual Devices P/L U8, 9-11 Trade St, Cleveland 4163 Australia Ph: +61 7 38210362 Fax: +61 7 38210281 New Web: www.audiovisualdevices.com.au ___________________________________________ -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist