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Old 13-12-2005, 08:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Stu
Tell me this, who in their right mind would grab a compeditors scope, decide to "clone" it, pull it apart, spend heaps of money reverse engineering it and be able to get it into production within a few months of the original companies release date and with same performance spec's? This would be prohibitively expensive.
well you have just described the 80's and 90's battle between Meade and Celestron, which has fuelled the fire of hardened debate and a few court cases in the US between the company's.
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