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Yeah, I agree with your views about supporting a company that hides
its specs.  It just happened that I bought this synth from a private
party as a used item.  But the principle is still true though.

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 05:07:27PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Agreed again. I do seem to recall though that attempts were made way
> back when to get the manufacturer of the tripletalk to disclose the
> specs, and that those attempts failed. I remember telling myself
> back then that I wouldn't give my business to a company which refused
> to make its hardware open. Has this changed, or would tripletalk
> support as of today need to be hacked together? If this hasn't
> changed, and won't have changed by the time speakup supports the
> tripletalk, then I guess the question for me would be first, can I
> afford to get one at that time, and second, do I want one badly enough
> to go back on my principals? Not to hijack the thread, but it would be
> interesting to get viewpoints as far as giving business to companies
> which refuse to open their hardware goes.
> 
> Greg
> 
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