I met someone who made a small fortune dealing with this stuff. She told me of all this red tape with grey areas galore she’d have to deal with for import/export. They’d often find some reason to hold their companies’ stuff. She’d argue with them about the technicalities to try getting it cleared. That they were often inconsistent (aka being assholes) worked to her advantage when bouncing things around the hierarchy. The details were about as ridiculous as the DOD’s accounting situation.
She was successful enough at it to retire early to begin a stint as a photographer traveling with tribute bands playing classic rock across the country. Then into investing. I don’t think she was good at that. Interesting person, though.
re trademark issues
I like the other one where they had to cut a deal with SPARC to not sell SPARC-based machines. That they’d even be selling SPARC stuff at dirt-cheap prices was already ridiculous. Even if they did (eg Leon CPU’s), them doing it would probably have only boosted the brand. They’re also one of the few companies that might have attempted a board doing that. Talk about corporate, legal team messing up its own clients.
The products could be given away for free to schools and such. No company can exploit that because they still lose the money but 4000 working multimeters aren’t binned.
Also it’s absolutely ludicrous that a company can trademark a color… I have a yellow multimeter on my desk right now and it isn’t fluke. It’s as insane as a fridge company trademarking white or razer trademarking green and not just a specific green but literally any green on an accessory.
A few months old, but a pretty good read with lots of what look like hard-earned lessons.
On top of that, it links to a lot of stuff Lobsters might enjoy if messing around with embedded projects.
Good to see we still care about the environment.
I met someone who made a small fortune dealing with this stuff. She told me of all this red tape with grey areas galore she’d have to deal with for import/export. They’d often find some reason to hold their companies’ stuff. She’d argue with them about the technicalities to try getting it cleared. That they were often inconsistent (aka being assholes) worked to her advantage when bouncing things around the hierarchy. The details were about as ridiculous as the DOD’s accounting situation.
She was successful enough at it to retire early to begin a stint as a photographer traveling with tribute bands playing classic rock across the country. Then into investing. I don’t think she was good at that. Interesting person, though.
re trademark issues
I like the other one where they had to cut a deal with SPARC to not sell SPARC-based machines. That they’d even be selling SPARC stuff at dirt-cheap prices was already ridiculous. Even if they did (eg Leon CPU’s), them doing it would probably have only boosted the brand. They’re also one of the few companies that might have attempted a board doing that. Talk about corporate, legal team messing up its own clients.
That would seem to be quite the loophole otherwise.
“You made a thing you’re not supposed to make.”
Yeah, but it would be wasteful to destroy it.
“Guess we can’t stop you then. Carry on.”
The products could be given away for free to schools and such. No company can exploit that because they still lose the money but 4000 working multimeters aren’t binned.
Also it’s absolutely ludicrous that a company can trademark a color… I have a yellow multimeter on my desk right now and it isn’t fluke. It’s as insane as a fridge company trademarking white or razer trademarking green and not just a specific green but literally any green on an accessory.