Dre, no offense...I'm not choosing sides...
Just let the man do as he wishes. If he wants to step into the market and make/re-make and sell something, so be it. I understand the whole Chuck header fiasco, in which he clearly stated he wanted to RE it to improve it. (Which I firmly disagree with)
The bottom line here is that there isn't a large market for our platform to begin with, so if he wants to go out of his way to design/re-design stuff, then let him! It doesn't make any difference what you say, because he's going to do it anyway. Just look at SSAC. I'm betting every member here could e-mail them and say they suck because they made a knock off of someone else's product, but in the end they'd end up being hypocrites because half of them here run the damn header anyway.
Hell he's not cheaper by a fair margin, nor is he more expensive. The point is that there's someone else now in the market that wants to fabricate something, and people are just shutting him out.
It's up to the consumer in the end to decide what they want, not up to the vendor or bystander that wouldn't buy anything from the vendor to begin with.
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