Not to belabor the point, but because it's relevent to this thread, WTB writes: "Much like I would've never thought of spacing a couple of dozen lights equidistantly and keeping them dim until Blackhearted's Global Lighting was introduced..." ...while I can't say for certain whether this was or wasn't built on the efforts of others (I hadn't heard one way or the other), it hit the marketplace on Dec. 1st, 2001. I downloaded a set of GI lights from freestuff on Oct. 15th (a month and a half earlier) that Anton made... and in his readme, Anton referred to a link at the Comic Collective (that was presumably an even earlier date) where he got the idea/inspiration. The point is, someone had to be the first to come up with each new idea or method and others adopt and build on those ideas and the community as a whole, benefits. If you're the idea guy and you're lucky, you get some amount of lead time to proffit from your ideas (assuming that's your intention), but once the cat's out of the bag, you can't really stuff it back in ;). That's just the way things have always been. Wyrm became (and is currently, as best as I can tell) a top 10 merchant here, by providing quality/innovative products in a category where he's had next to zero comptetition for the past few years. That's something he can be proud of and reap the rewards of at the same time. From reading his extended thoughts in the above link (post #36, above), it's clear that Wyrm realizes the reality of the situation and is just trying to regroup... He's not crying foul or pointing fingers - and we shouldn't either.

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