Scrapping hardware to get it off the books

From: Ian Koller <vze2mnvr_at_verizon.net>
Date: Fri Nov 30 06:34:35 2001

> A few months after the Japanese asked that we ship the protoypes
> back for scrapping! I dread to think of the costs involved.

 It doesn't matter. The value of their intellectual property
and trade secrets, and the need to control them, so far outweigh
those shipping costs.

                            Ian

"They got two good eyes, but they still can't see ..."


Hans B Pufal wrote:
>
> It can get down right ridiculous.
>
> I once worked for a company in the UK who were working on some hardare
> which was being developed in Japan. The Japanese sent over three or four
> prototypes which, for reasons I now forget, we never used. A few months
> after the Japanese asked that we ship the protoypes back for scrapping!
>
> I dread to think of the costs involved.
>
> -- hbp
Received on Fri Nov 30 2001 - 06:34:35 GMT