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Re: When does a better mouse trap turn distasteful carboncopy cloning?

>>Re: When does a better mouse trap turn distasteful carboncopy cloning?

Depends on who you ask. Morals + $0.35 gets you a doughnut. So it is with creativity.

What is "creativity" worth, anything? It obviously takes creativity to make a product less expensive. But it takes more creativity to be the first.

>>I fail to see the moral spin that some folks are putting on this. If someone can build essentially the same product as the 47 Labs Gaincard and sell it for less, why shouldn't they? And, if you think they shouldn't, then you must also believe it is immoral for major grocery chains to market sodium hypocholorite solution (i.e. liquid laundry bleach) in their own private label containers for less money than the Clorox Corporation sells the exact same product under the "Clorox" brand name!

==The moral spin derives from the fact that alot of audio certainly is, or is claimed to be *artististcly* inspired. Art and artisticly inspired designs own a subjective value that elevates their worth, far beyond Clorox. Your buying something of higher value when it's *original*. Your not buying aesthetics based on a *spec* or performance level alone. Your also buying artistic *intent*, *interpretation* and *excecution*. These intangibles have value, if not to the buyer then certainly to the original creator.

I'd rather have a blank wall than stare at a hotel cheesy print that matches the couch.

Same with amplifiers. Wavelengths, Atmaspheres, Krells, Fishers and more all have artistic merit and worth. Especially to the creators. Out of respect for *their* passion for their products comes the respect for their products and hence the "moral spin". 47 Labs has a well established artistic "presence" with great respect to the implementation, the details of which are probably lost to the bean counters and those uninspired by originality and creativity.

This is a hard sell, in consumer America, where modifying ones pick up truck is the predominant art form.

I thnk the issue of artistic merit, and appreciation of ones artistic acheivement needs to be re-evaluated. If all we do is clone each other, we will wander aimlessly (with fatter wallets).

To buy the original is to support artistic inspiration and creative excecution.


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