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by anigbrowl 4708 days ago
Probably because nobody other than a narrow subset of the nerd community uses the word 'frob' or expects anyone else to search on it.

At least one firm has already decided it's cheaper to give away schematics for certain parts than to manufacture and ship them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4568043