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About the Chipdir

About this site

Legal stuff

• This chip directory is published 'as is' with no guarantee whatsoever.
• Copyright of these pages is mine, unless stated otherwise.
• It's not allowed, to use the address data for mailing list purposes without permission.
• All trademarks are of course recognised as being of their rightful owners.
• You may generally include this Chipdir on CDROM. Email me for a version that is much more off-line user firendly.

More about copyrights in general:

info.ic.gc.ca/info-highway/reports/copyright/copy_e.txt	Canada
www.ari.net/dfc/dcc/links.htm	ARI
www.asp-shareware.org/	Association of Shareware Professionals
www.benedict.com/	Copyright Website
www.clari.net/brad/copymyths.html	Ten big myths of copyright law explained
www.counsel.com/cyberspace/	Cyberspace Law for Non Lawyers
www.hwg.org/resources/faqs/copyrFAQ.html	HTML writers guild's copyright info
www.ip99.com/	IP99 Europe conference about chip copyrights
www.softwareprotection.com/body.htm	Software protection
www.wipo.org/eng/	WIPO

More about trade marks:

www.ll.georgetown.edu/lc/internic/trademarks/dilut1.html

Federal Trademark Dilution of 1995

About software patents:

linuxjournal.com:8080/articles/currents/003.html

About requesting links and other changes

• It's impossible for me to edit these files on the WWW servers themselvesso they are updated only once every 4 to 6 months.
• Please be patient when requesting a link or other change on these pages:You will almost always get it, but it may take a while.
• The texts in the company address listings are the responsibility of theChipdir author and not of the companies themselves although dataprovided by the companies themselves or others is not rigorously checked.

Thanks

• Special thanks to Therese and Jim Bublitz of Midwest Componentswho help me to help people find scarce chips.
• Thanks to the 10000's of people who have sent corrections,additions, pinouts, tips, thank-you's etc.
• Thanks to all the mirror site managers.
• Thanks to the advertisers for making this site possible without mehaving to live on bread, water and canned brown beans alone.(I can now eat peas on sundays! ;-)
• Thanks to the visitors for clicking on the ad's... ;-)
• Thanks for everyone appreciating this site so much!I have set it up like I would have liked to use it and it's nice that so many peoplerecognise and appreciate this!