Myke:

Don't feel that you are along even as an author publishing circuits and
code that others attempt to claim. Every time I have come out with a
product, product improvement or even a product name I have been hit with
legal action of one form or another. All of them but one were settled
without major lawyer involvement, but took my time and effort to support
my side even so as you know. One case seemed so good that even our
insurance company backed us all the way to Federal court trial after
years of effort. There I learned the lesson that no matter how good your
case is, the legal system is weighted to whoever wants to spend the most
money. I my case it was Tandy's $ millions against our $100K. Now I do
everything to make the other guy go away without getting lawyers in the
loop.

Good luck anyway.

-Wayne


> ----------
> From:         Myke Predko[SMTP:myke@PASSPORT.CA]
> Sent:         Tuesday, October 28, 1997 6:44 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: New ideas
>
> At 05:09 PM 28/10/97 PST, Billw wrote:
> >Um, I think I missed part of the discussion.  Is Parallax getting
> fussy
> >over basic-stamp-like machines?  They didn't seem too be for a long
> time
> >(to their credit), but perhaps they were entitled.  The 8052-basic
> was
> >an entirely different sort of beast.  The core of PAX's "innovations"
> >were twofold:
>
> I apologise for my previous rant.  I'm still pissed at what happened
> last
> week.  PAX got attacked because Walt brought them up.
>
> I'm all right now,
>
> really.
>
> myke
>