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Originally Posted by spankdplank
As far as the Timmy debate, I'm with Anchoret on this one. No one seems to be up in arms over the Digitech Bad Monkey and all the other TS 808 clones. Is the moral outrage because Paul C. is an individual and Digitech isn't? That doesn't seem to be a valid basis for moral outrage to me. If Paul C. had created something truly unique and original, he could have filed for patent protection. He didn't, so he didn't.
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Listen. At this point ANYTHING you do with some two-bit dirtbox circuit has been done before, and in many trivially different combinations. It's nothing but hobbyist-level tinkering around.
It's not ambient-temperature superconductance or cold fusion. It's not a cure for MRSA. It's not the revolutionary storage battery formula that industry's been waiting for for a hundred years.
It's not big science or defensible intellectual property.
It's nothing but your dirty little pebble that you've tossed into the common muddy pool of collective dirtbox tech.
End of story.
The real hero is the one who gets the end product into the most hands for the least money.