[BC] Providing schematics

[Robert Orban]

At 12:17 PM 10/4/2007, you wrote:
> > If you are in the state of California, the law requires it be supplied
>upon
> > request. A portion of the Fair Repairman Act.  According to the law you
>have
> > the right to repair something you bought and paid for.
>
>With Silicon Valley and many manufacturers based in CA
>how does this law affect proprietary devices? Does this to
>Orban/CRL "black box" modules? EPROM coding? If I
>buy a PC in CA am I entitled to Windows Vista souce
>code? I wonder exactly what a buyer is entitled to?

I don't believe that the buyer is entitled to trade secrets of the 
manufacturer. This would include our "black boxes" and code.

That being said, Orban still includes a complete service manual 
(including schematics) as part of the documentation for all of our 
stand-alone Optimods. We take great pains to make sure that the 
schematics are maintained in vector form all the way to our pdfs so 
the schematics can be viewed at high magnification and still look clean.

Supplying this info is one thing that differentiates us from many of 
our competitors.

Bob Orban