On November 9, 2005 02:02 pm, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
> > I would still recommend going through the exercise of attempting to
> > produce gerber files.
>
> First decide whether you will use a board house that accepts eagle
> .brd directly. If it does, don't bother with gerbering.
>
> > This way, you have more options on which pcb
> > houses to use, plus it becomes annoying for anyone attempting to
> > copy your files to create a similar board (relative to sending
> > them original files).
>
> If I read this correctly you suspect Olimex of creating clones of
> your boards?

No, I don't suspect Olminex, but I have a friend who found cloned boards 
for their prototype (less than honest client who tried using another 
place). Anyhow... if a file is harder to manipulate because it is 
gerber versus being source files, then all the better on protection, 
because who is to say that there may be less than honest employees 
working at board house X y or Z.  :-)

> Nothing is impossible, but my experience with them has 
> been the opposite. I use Olimex for my Wisp628 PCBs. Some other guy
> tried to have them make Wisp628 PCBs (same circuit, same name,
> different PCB design, but the same name - which probably triggered
> them). They contacted me. I sorted it out with the other guy.

That is more or less how my friend found out about the cloned PCB, 
except it was a sales rep that mentioned that there is a coincidental 
search for same parts.

> I conmsider this quite a service from them.

That is good to hear, and a good recommendation then.
Cheers!
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