Exact definitions of rip-off? (was: commercial rip...)

[jhaible]

> Does anyone have any direct evidence that Dieter copied the design
> directly and did not just design a new module with the same functions?
> The Varilogic II module could look like a tomg or JH design if you just
> saw the front panel, but the circuitry is new.

No, and I never claimed that.

But if I'd take your Borg filter idea, used an opamp somewhere where you
have discrete circuitry, and make a XYZ unit out of it, then I'd collect the
descriptions of your Borg, about it sounding like a cello (paraphrasing) and
other background info you posted, and the owner of the XYZ company would use
this text to advertise the thing, and we'd do the same thing with a couple
of other modules of yours, and announce all of them within a single update
of the web page, you would have some reason to be slightly pissed off. I
don't say you would be,
but you'd have all reason to be.

JH.