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I just learned that @TXInstruments sent a DMCA takedown to a site archiving datasheets last year.
This immediately disqualifies them from any future design I make. If engineers cannot share and archive datasheets, I cannot work with you. Ever.https://twitter.com/bitsavers/status/1271233332794191873 …
Here is TI DMCAing a bunch of random datasheets. Completely jellybean stuff like 555s, 74xx logic, and op-amps. Nope nope nope nope. This is crazy. https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/18049758?access_token=2m7aiYaan5NA2ozEix0OPg …
I don't care what your copyright lawyers think or what the "© Texas Instruments" footer says on the pages; datasheets not being permissively licensed is just an omission and a legal incompetence that is ubiquitous across the industry. If you *enforce* it, you are unusable.
Is Trump running TI now?
They removed students from their free samples program a few years back too. Seriously, WTF TI?
Honestly so many “datasheet sites” are just spam and ads and crap and should be destroyed. If you want fast easy access to a datasheet just look up part on Digikey and get data with one click, it’s the easiest way. Legacy devices where the data isn’t on TI’s site? Just ask them?
this was not the case though
For *60 year old* datasheets??!? What the actual fuck!
I still have an electronics parts catalog the size of a phone book from the '80s that has datasheets for everything worthy of having one... so I'm set! (Reference: A phone book was where folks found phone numbers for their region. They had thin paper, small print and were thick.)
@bitsavers @TXInstruments @gts99503 Not cool. But at least in my experience, TI usually releases a lot more information and datasheets for their processors than vendors like Qualcomm and Broadcom, that will give you nothing until you sign an NDA.
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