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In Reply to: Ethical Tweaks - respect to companies? posted by transmissionfluid on October 21, 2004 at 12:06:47:
Hi transmissionfluid,I believe you raise an interesting issue.
Since you mentioned Hip Joints at the start of your post, I would take exception to the terms "copy" and "steal", also used in your post. Since Hip Joints were mentioned, I feel it appropriate to address the issue with regard to them.The earliest posts about Hip Joints talk about experimentation with different types of footers and my experience with them. They also talk about how impressed I was (and am still) with the commercial roller bearings and that these inspired thought about how fundamental changes in design would alter performance. (I am given to understand all of the designs currently being sold were inspired by other, existing ones, with the exception perhaps of the Yamamura-Churchill which was the first use of a roller for audio purposes of which I'm aware.)
The concept of roller bearings predates their use in audio and goes back close to a century in their use as seismic isolators for tall buildings. A quick search on the web will show this. You'll find metal balls sitting in concave depressions. The concept is not unique.
Copying and stealing are wrong as I believe all would agree. I believe creating a new design and sharing it with other hobbyists, as was the case in the recent talk of the group buy does not fall under those terms, particularly when the only commercial product that is vaguely similar in appearance made its commercial debut more than one year after the hobbyist version did.
By the way, didn't you get a copy of the specs for Hip Joints earlier this year?
If I believed sharing the design was unethical in any way or disrespectful to anyone, I'd have kept it to myself from the beginning.Happy Listening!
Barry
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Follow Ups
- Re: Ethical Tweaks - respect to companies? - bdiament 14:45:14 10/21/04 (2)
- No disrespect intended Barry! - transmissionfluid 18:29:22 10/21/04 (1)
- Understood. Thanks (nt) - bdiament 11:06:17 10/22/04 (0)
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