This is what Zane needs

Since we sell a very niche product at a fairly high price, we can afford to enforce our copyright. The sad thing for Zane is there is no way for him to cost effectively protect his idea, other than to rely on morals. That said, I know a few neighbors who have bought Thangs, even after seeing mine, because it just wasn't worth the time and effort to scrounge materials to make there own....that may be the saving grace of this cat out of the bag.

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Steve

In talking with Zane one finds the cost of the patent far excedes anything he can reasonably make from the sales of either the Zane Thang or the Live Thang, that fact alone precludes getting a patent.

That's why this flamer had to have done it for spite, because some under educated (according to the professor)clown can come up with a device that the vaunted highly intelligent (again the professor's opinion) professor couldn't come up with, especially since it was so simple once you understood the tractor hydraulics.

Zane already understood that he was wide open to have someone start making copies of the Zane Thang, just as he is in the case of the Live Thang, just one of the problems of basicly helping a few people make their tractors work better than they had been designed to work. There really isn't that large a market for the Zane Thang, how many people, other than the dedicated owners you'll find on this board, really care if they are able to get the best performance from their tractors or not.

Once I heard this thief was a college professor I understood entirely why he would think nothing of stealing someone else's intelectual property, he lives in a world where it is done quite commonly, and the morals of someone doing it shows exactly that.

It still irritates ya' though.

Mike

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Steve

To the contrary, he asked honorable people not to reveal the simplicity of his invention.

I have a Zane Thang. I have the capability, as many do, to manufacture them if I so choose. If I did so, I would be stealing Zane's idea. The idea is worth much more than the Zane Thang costs. When I bought mine, I figured I was buying his idea and a little bit of hardware. I paid partly for his idea which he is richly entitled to be compensated for.

Those of you who think Zane should have paid the shysters to protect his idea do not deserve to see any of the advances such effort brings us on a small scale, and richly deserve to pay the inflated prices the shysters cause. Pity!

Rinaldi is guilty of driving the getaway car the thieving professor used. I won't renew my subscription.

George Willer

Salmoneye, The Amazed