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RE: [OM] Irony of discontinuing of the OM series

Subject: RE: [OM] Irony of discontinuing of the OM series
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 11:33:37 -0800
True enough, Alan. What I think is rather sad is that companies like Olympus
rarely offer tech drawings, tooling or other such no-longer-required items
for sale or other transfer to interested parties.

Imagine the good will (and good press) that could be generated by providing
the engineering drawings, remaining spares stock and perhaps tooling to a
users-group of OM owners. Whether donated, sold at "profit," or sold at
"cost," it seems to me that it would be a PR win, if nothing more.

To a user-group, it would be a bonanza. All that is needed to be able to
fabricate spares for at least the mechanical components most likely to wear
out or fail would be available, eliminating the time-consuming (and
sometimes expensive) requirement to reverse engineer and reducing the need
to custom fabricate.

---
Scott Gomez


I think it is not done because of the propietary engineering contained that the company does not want to share because it is still using it in current models, it had licensed it from another company, or it just wants you to buy the new stuff. Many a web site has been shut down for making old, discontinued software available to those with ancient computers that will not run the new stuff. They do not want to provide it nor do they want anyone else to provide it.
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Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California

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