Hi Vincent,
It is all much easier to understand if you are a money grubbing,
scoundrel thief.
In a word, the reason they won't make the information available: lawyers.
If they show you the source code for their computer parts, they will get
sued for patent infringement, and will have handed the proof of the
infringement to the opposition for use in court.
If they show you the circuitry they used for their scopes, again they
will get sued for patent infringement.
This is one case where there is a pretty good level of security through
obscurity. It takes real work to figure out if an algorithm used in
a scope, that has been compiled and linked is something that belongs to
you, but is being infringed. Especially if the scope compresses the
code in the flash devices, and uncompresses it before it is put into
memory.
-Chuck Harris
Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
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But where I don't get it, is why Tektronix can't make available all their newer stuff, the "modern" instruments that were designed in the early '90's, all the CRT TDS series for example, which are so popular.
