> Instead they are reasonably pricing out-of-patent hardware designs which the original manufacturers are apparently vastly overcharging for decades after they

> Instead they are reasonably pricing out-of-patent hardware designs which the original manufacturers are apparently vastly overcharging for decades after they have recouped their R&D costs. That's fine but they do stuff like this: https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0E2V https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0E2V https://www.arturia.com/products/keystep/overview https://www.arturia.com/products/keystep/overview Where it is just a copied thing near 1:1 of product currently being sold, changed just enough to not be sued for making exact copy And not just big companies but smaller modular ones like this: https://synthanatomy.com/2023/05/behringer-abacus-a-ripoff-of-the-all-time-favorite-make-noise-maths.html https://synthanatomy.com/2023/05/behringer-abacus-a-ripoff-o... Tho to be fair original maths is based on some old Buchla modules. I have nothing against resurrecting stuff out of production or produced so long patent expired (they had their chance) but near-copy of current stuff is a bit much.