True enough, Alan. What I think is rather sad is that companies like Olympus
rarely offer tech drawings, tooling or other such no-longer-required items
for sale or other transfer to interested parties.
Imagine the good will (and good press) that could be generated by providing
the engineering drawings, remaining spares stock and perhaps tooling to a
users-group of OM owners. Whether donated, sold at "profit," or sold at
"cost," it seems to me that it would be a PR win, if nothing more.
To a user-group, it would be a bonanza. All that is needed to be able to
fabricate spares for at least the mechanical components most likely to wear
out or fail would be available, eliminating the time-consuming (and
sometimes expensive) requirement to reverse engineer and reducing the need
to custom fabricate.
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Scott Gomez
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan [mailto:atk@xxxxxxxxxx]
Subject: RE: [OM] Irony of discontinuing of the OM series
I disagree with you in one regards. Olympus does not have an obligation to
support a product line indefinitely for which it has negative income. Now,
if the collective you would PAY for such support to the extent that income
was at least break-even and olympus (or any company) still chose to
discontinue support I would feel differently.
Alan
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