In Reply to: Wow posted by Peter Gunn on January 19, 2011 at 12:39:01:
"Again, not telling them what to do but this comment makes it clear they do not and will not EVER push the envelope."
I agree with this. I think in their minds, they're saying "why change the winning team?"
Theirs is the position of having a hen that lays golden eggs. They're selling the eggs, not the hen. We then take those eggs and turn them into more elaborate artwork etc. We can't expect them to elaborate on the golden eggs they're selling.
A burning question: suppose Magnepan folds (worst case scenario, they just can't stay afloat; blame it on lousy management, dishonest accountants, global warming, wikileaks, whatever...) -- who will then carry the torch?
My understanding, from the little that I read about this speaker technology here, is that, technically speaking, there isn't anything oh-so-fancy about the basic Maggies architecture. It's mostly all about the patented "intellectual property" that keeps the startup competition at bay. If the company folds and defaults on the "intellectual property", how difficult would it be for the community to pick up the slack and 'own' or 'misappropriate' the technology (sort of how Linux community misappropriated the Unix technology)?
Something tells me (however, I may be dead wrong on this one) that it wouldn't be too too difficult nor costly to build these speakers from ground up (now that we understand the ingenious idea and the guiding principles behind it), and in the process explore opportunities for making them even better. Sort of like an open-source community based project (again, I'm drawing upon the Linux example).
Am I way off?
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- RE: Wow - magiccarpetride 14:14:30 01/19/11 (16)
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