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From: Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com> >At 5:08 AM -0400 6/12/01, SoundFNR@aol.com wrote: >>So why are people really down on Behringer? >>There's no evidence as to how they treat their Chinese employees. >>And there doesn't appear to be a proven case of them ripping >>off circuits that weren't public domain. > >I refer you to a letter from Marvin Caesar, founder and president of >Aphex. According to Caesar, the Aphex Aural Exciter was the first >product design Behringer ripped off, right down to copying the >manual. Aphex's suit against Behringer was indeed settled in court, >in Aphex's favor: > >http://groups.google.com/groups?q=behringer&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rnum=2 >&ic=1&selm=7f5aop%24ukk%241%40nnrp1.dejanews.com This article is pretty shocking. >The manual, being so blatant a copy, caused people >who bought the Behringer copy to call our distributor in Germany for >service. > >Behringer's attack on our products >was not limited to the Aural Exciter. He tried to copy our 612 gate. He >could >not get our VCA so he used the VCA that we had used previously. We had to >use >a heat spreader on our new VCA which was not necessary on the previous >design. Behringer glued a useless piece of metal on his VCA's showing >that he >either did not understand what was going on in the unit, only making a >poor >copy of it, or he simply tried to copy as exactly as possible. He also >copied >our manual- page for page, illustration for illustration. The court >immediately issued an order for him to stop and reimbursed us for our >legal >fees. that was fast .......all legal games of chess <http://solveChess.com/chess?refresh=0>...... .....programmer's documentation <http://solveChess.com/doc>..................