Re: why aren't electronics schematics trade secrets?

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"Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote in message
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> Just curious why electronics schematics aren't closely guarded trade
> secrets. Is it because the hard part is making the parts, not
> stringing them together?

oh but they ARE closely guarded....
ever tried finding schematics created by companies ?
try for instance finding a schematic of any gsm
(except in service manuals of course....)

and the hard part is also stringing them together thereby thinking further
as just principles, about as hard as creating parts if you try to do it
right