Agreed. If they're revealing proprietary information, that's 100% on them.
As an aside, this is common in engineering. You'd be amazed how much of the competition's solutions you can learn about just by staring at their marketing promo images/videos for an hour, "wait...there is no way that crappy motor in the pic can deliver the precision they claim their system has...."
@mightyweasel @maxleibman Cool, it's very similar in my field! I go to conferences mainly to stare at booths and sit in on product demonstrations.
I told the person I was just talking with that I'm swamped right now (true), but I'm happy to talk in about 2 weeks, and can he please send me the technical manuals for their tests so I can decide if it meets our requirements.
He sent them. All of them. :)
