A Chinese machinist is already selling these on Alibaba while the American machinist attempts to repatent something invented a century ago. One wants to produc

A Chinese machinist is already selling these on Alibaba while the American machinist attempts to repatent something invented a century ago. One wants to produce a tool that helps others make cool stuff, one wants to rip off an inventors design to try to pass it off as his own. This is everything the patent system is supposed to protect AGAINST. Differences in societal values I guess.