[Elecraft] MFJ's new Internal K3 Tuner, anyone tried one yet?

[Fred Townsend]

MFJ followers will tell you that is not the first time they have copied a design. If the design is not patented, there are no copyright violations, and there is no theft of proprietary information, no harm, no foal.

Recall exactly the same thing occurred with a certain USB to RS232 converter. The driver was hijacked so the originators of the driver changed the code to detect counterfeit hardware. No harm, no foal.

All is fair in love and war. The ethics are another matter.

73
Fred, AE6QL

-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Hemmis <bhemmis at mac.com>
>Sent: May 12, 2015 4:49 PM
>To: Phil Wheeler <w7ox at socal.rr.com>
>Cc: Elecraft Reflector <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] MFJ's new Internal K3 Tuner, anyone tried one yet?
>
>
>I can see it now…"Introducing the new competition grade M3 transceiver from MFJ"
>They’ll reverse engineer the K3 and sub it out to some Chinese garage operation…
>I do think this tuner cloning is a low blow and takes MFJ down several notches IMO.
>I’d be surprised if Elecraft doesn’t have their legal team working on this one.
>
>Brian K3USC
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