From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com)
Date: Mon Sep 22 2003 - 14:28:07 PDT
On 22/09/03 17:08, "Paul Braun" <splendor_at_ctgonline.org> wrote:
> On 22 Sep 2003 at 14:43, Jeffrey M.Swiger wrote:
>
>> Isn't Competition a GOOD Thing?.......
>> Jeff
>>
>>
> Sure, competition is a good thing. If Ferdi had done all his own
> engineering and developed his own serial port interface board, THAT
> would be competition.
>
> Taking someone else's pcb design and layout and simply copying it,
> then pawning it off as your own, is copyright and patent
> infringement. And if your reputation is dodgy at best, you're going
> to hurt the reputation of the guy who did all the heavy lifting to
> start with, especially if people who don't hang out here don't know
> that they're buying an imitation "Rolyx" (intentional misspelling)
> instead of the real "Rolex".
>
> And, in this case, they're buying a copy of an early revision that
> has bugs. This will, for those who aren't really informed, cause bad
> feelings so when PCBMan puts out another run of the REAL SER001,
> they're going to tell people that they bought one from ebay and it's
> crap.
I fully agree that this isn't fair and seems to be a ripoff. But, since
we're talking about copy and ripoff, isn't Windows the biggest ripoff of
all? And a successful one at that?
-Laurent.
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