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Posted for "Chuck Jensen" <cjensen@dts9000.com>:

  Brent Regan wrote in response to:
  
  John Schroeder asks:
  
  <<was D2 performing another service to earn that markup?>>
  
  Yes. D2 was providing direct customer support. Besides being on call
  24/7 to answer questions, they also set up and maintained an extensive
  web site with useful information.

...snip...

  <<Finally, why would they want to want to carry a product (Pinpoint) and
  agree to keeping its manufacturer anonymous?>>
  
  The answer is simple. Performance.  If confidentiality is part of the
  price of being able to exclusively offer a product  that your own, first
  hand, testing has shown to be superior, then it is an easy price to pay.
  You must appreciate that the american legal system scares the *#&% out
  of most of the worlds business population.
  
  ***
  This answer is inconsistent with the answer below.  Since Pinpoint has
  constitently declined to provide performance data and specification,
  then customers are required to rely on "talk the talk" like every other
  product at OSH.  So, as Fred Moreno says, "Show me the data."  This
  should seem to apply equally to Pinpoint, no?
  ****
  
  <<My vote is for Crossbow on this round. They have had problems, but
  have been pretty honest>>>
  
  Some people will buy a car because it is blue and blue is their favorite
  color.  Me, I prefer to pick a product based on its suitability to the
  task and superiority to other comparable products.  If all it took was
  to talk the talk then every product at OSH would the best. As Fred
  Moreno has often said "Show me the data". Anything else is just
  prevarication.
  
  
  ***
  So....where is Pinpoint's data?  "Trust me" is not a product
  specification, no?
  ****
  
  John also seems to be implying that  the ability to keep confidential
  information confidential somehow contrasts with being "honest".  A good
  friend of mine survived to bombing of Coventry (11/15/1940) during WWII.
  Study this event you will have a deeper appreciation of the need for
  keeping a secret.
  
  
  ***
  Honesty is a qualitative judgement.  Where there is little/no
  transparency, it is impossible to say whether someone is being "honest"
  or not, because there is no information from which to judge.  Being
  secretive and covert is not prima facie evidence of dishonesty, but most
  dishonest people are secretive and covert, hence the concern some may
  have and the reason for their unanswered questions.
  ****
  
  cjensen@dts9000.com