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On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 4:24 PM, mike.valk@gmail.com mike.valk@gmail.com wrote:
But the current connectors used by the "big" manufacturers are product specific and quite expensive for low volume production and not sustainable.
and they're also proprietary. i had this happen with the keyboards. contacting one of the manufacturers of the original parts, they go "who the f*** are you, and why do you want to demand a copyrighted part in ridiculously small volume not worth our time, which if our million-to-billion-dollar client finds out we're letting you have THEIR copyrighted design they'll never speak to us again, we lose a fortune.... over _how_ much business did you say you wanted??"
... yah :)
l.