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After Robin Whittle wrote this piece, Behringer's president Uli Behringer decided to publicly air his entire private email exchange with Robin in order to tell
by dmschulman 7y ago
After Robin Whittle wrote this piece, Behringer's president Uli Behringer decided to publicly air his entire private email exchange with Robin in order to tell "their" side of the story.
I believe this was done to show they offered Robin some (abet paltry) compensation of $15k, but publishing their entire private correspondence seems like more of a bullying tactic than anything else. Behringer has very little to lose here and they know it, but the conduct is unbecoming.
Should we allow large hardware manufacturers to bully and push around small businesses and DIY hardware hackers like this?
- nkozyra 7y agoI'm not seeing the bullying here. Two companies engaged on a partnership, it didn't work out and now they're both airing the laundry. The deal didn't make sense for either party. It happens. What I find interesting is that none of the clone criticism seemed to impact the excitement about working with behringer in the first place, assuming the deal made sense.
- kennywinker 7y ago“It didn’t work out” But behringer went ahead and used all the devilfish ideas in their product. It didn’t work out would be the deal collapsed and nobody made the clone.
- cwzwarich 7y agoRWI doesn't own the Devilfish ideas (even if they were patented, they would've expired by now since Robin's been doing this since 1993), so the business deal was really over the Devilfish brand name and endorsement.