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by mschuster91 2418 days ago
From the part about Octopart:

> The distributors want to prevent the transparency that comes from having prices online.

Some manufacturers are worse, they don't publish datasheets (looking at you, Intel VDSL chipset department, laptop keyboard manufacturers, Broadcom). It's almost as if there are companies that want to lock out anyone not a multi-million company to tinker with their products...