Nope the folks on here are all to happy to bash JD without one tiny little bit of hard enough to take it to the bank evidence. The only outright case on JD taking an idea I know of was the Cat vs JD legal fight over the tracked tractor drive. CASEIH just paid Cat to use their design and AGCO hasn't plunged into that market as far as I know.
For what it's worth JD dropped the 2 cyl engine because of 2 things. One being that they really couldn't pump to much more HP in that design and a big one from that day.....other companies ads. Everything in that day was geared toward "modern" this and that. They other manufactures were hinting strongly that theirs were a better more modern design than JD's poppers.
Many things developed through the years failed for various reason. The brand specific hitch systems being one. One group claims they were the greatest invention sense toilet paper yet they failed. Why? Because the companies failed to understand farmers in general who were independent mined people who didn't like being told what they had to buy. My sister's FIL owned 3 IH fast hitch tractors and not one fast hitch implement as an example. Said he wasn't going to let IH tell him what to buy. He had aftermarket adapters to allow him to use 3 point implements.
Every tractor company out there today and most that failed or were bought out somewhere along the line acquired other companies and patents and whatever was under development at the time.
Just cause you like MM (sold out) Oliver (sold out) Ford (sold out) MH/MF (sold out) AC (failed) IH (failed) Case (sold out) isn't cause to jump JD every chance you get. I only own 2 JD implements and am no big JD fan but you ain't going to change people's minds.
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