Texas Instruments sent a DMCA takedown to a site archiving data sheets

Re:Texas Instruments sent a DMCA takedown to a site archivin... by Taniwha on Friday January 08, 2021 @05:27AM (#25683302)

Marketing stupidity at its highest - if they were doing their job properly they would be doing everything possible to put their data sheets in front of as many designers as possible - I'll just find someone else's part that does the job and choose that

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Re:Texas Instruments sent a DMCA takedown to a site archivin... by varispeed on Friday January 08, 2021 @05:39AM (#25683368)

For example Apple is known for having part suppliers to not sell parts to third parties. I wouldn't be surprised if these type of deals but more secret existed, so that big corporations can ensure there won't be any new competition coming up, as they wouldn't have the same access to parts or documentation.

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Re:Texas Instruments sent a DMCA takedown to a site archivin... by b1ackb0x on Friday January 08, 2021 @05:32AM (#25683335)

And it’s not just TI, the whole industry is like that. Not only datasheets, most of developer documentation is not available for very common chips.

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