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Re: Mr. Walker I think you are confused...

Posted by Mr. Walker (A) on October 23, 2004 at 13:52:07

In Reply to: Mr. Walker I think you are confused... posted by Wellfed on October 23, 2004 at 10:14:41:

Wellfed, this is exactly correct. Just don’t tell Barry that his Hip Joints are “nearly identical” to the Rollerblock Jrs., or he’ll have a hemorrhage.

The argument goes like this: Rollerblock Jrs. (as one might guess from the name) have a whole lot in common with Rollerblocks. Identical cup and ball dimensions, for example. On the other hand, Rollerblock Jrs. (as you point out) are also nearly identical to Hip Joints. But somehow, according to Barry, Hip Joints have “nothing in common with Rollerblocks other than they both use a ball and a cup.” Now, it doesn’t take a Bertrand Russell to spot the logical flaw there. Or at least the exaggeration.

So we are left with three extremely closely related rollerblock designs. Barry alternately claims that the Hip Joints have nothing to do with the Rollerblocks (when he wants to show how original they are), and that they are very close to the Rollerblock Jrs (when he wants to say Symposium ripped off his idea). But since we all can see how interrelated the designs are, let me propose the following argument for Team Hip Joints:

Barry made some modifications to Symposium Rollerblocks, and soon afterwards Symposium released a similar modification. Of course, we know nothing about when Symposium developed this modification—it could have been weeks, months, or years before they released it. But Barry should be enterprising and argue that Symposium was too lazy or complacent to conduct its own research and therefore had to camp out on Audio Asylum looking for ideas to steal. Barry should therefore request some credit for helping to introduce this product modification. It's a relatively modest line of attack, but far more plausible than claiming to have designed a completely independent roller bearing product.

OK, that’s it for me, having now argued *both* sides of the position.

Mr. Walker

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