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> > Not only unfriendly to hobbyist, but also relative big business. You
> > need to sign an NDA to have access to the datasheet of a Ethernet PHY
> > which is a commodity part.
> >
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> I don't get it, why do people keep using them?

I think you are imagining the wrong marketing model.

I suspect their model is that any chip they supply will have an NDA applied=
 to it, as they will only supply to people who are purchasing in the millio=
ns of chips a year, and these people are going to be those using their GPU =
chips, which are what the NDA is really aimed at. If you are buying GPU chi=
ps, we can also supply PHY chips, etc, under the same NDA, and 'it will be =
harder for people to reverse engineer your product as they cannot get the i=
nformation without an NDA' when what they really mean is 'our salesman can'=
t be bothered with selling small quantities and seeing if this chip the pot=
ential customer wants requires an NDA so everything requires an NDA because=
 our salesman are so thick and lazy'


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