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GPL v3

Posted Aug 20, 2012 9:50 UTC (Mon) by etienne (subscriber, #25256)
In reply to: GPL v3 by nix
Parent article: GENIVI: moving an industry to open source

> UK ... earthed socket design

Ever seen someone using a pair of scissor in the earth of a UK socket to open the live holes and plug-in by force a european 2 pin plug?

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GPL v3

Posted Aug 20, 2012 12:08 UTC (Mon) by BlueLightning (subscriber, #38978) [Link]

For conformant EU plugs and UK sockets, the pins are too large and narrowly spaced for that to work.

GPL v3

Posted Aug 20, 2012 22:25 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yes, but there do exist (cheap and horrible firetrap) adaptors which convert EU prong spacing into UK prong spacing without bothering to provide anything as plebeian as an earth prong. Then the scissor trick is needed.

It is perhaps thirty years since I saw anyone resorting to *that*. :)