although interesting to read, the moral high ground argument here is kinda thin, isn't it?
What's that phrase, honor amongst thieves.
One hijack- We've been watching 60 Days In on Netflix. It is interesting that a bunch of locked up thugs have their own moral code that they hold sacred. people are fascinating creatures, to say the least.
This is a another hijack, but a similar explosion happened on FB recently with mini NES cases. The original design was open source, yet when folks started making them and selling at reasonable prices to cover the effort and materials...one person completely blew a gasket about it...with similar moral high ground talk......ummmm, it is a copy of a NES design, folks for a hobby using 3D printers for fun.....
and yet another hijack- a few years back at Pinball Expo banquet, Joe Kaminkow who you know from some classic pinballs and helping restart Stern pinball....is giving his speech and he admitted to Mark Ritchie, who you know as Steve Ritchie's brother and dev of many great A tables.....that they totally took one of the pins Mark was involved in and reverse engineered it for their own product release (must have involved Data East and Capcom, I kinda forget the exact name details).
and another hijack...i'm a lyrical terrorist, baby.... another story at pinball expo. Nolan Bushnell was talking about microprocessor games...and Mike Stroll, who was involved in bringing chips to pinball, then became the President at WMS, reminded him that the processor technology he was talking about was directly acquired from him. wink wink.
and one more hijack....even Eugene Jarvis owns JROK MWS pcbs...and he was very impressed with the work.