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[peter]

Yan wrote:

Yes, he is a great guy, regardless. I bought many of his products, great quality and great customer service as well.

 

We can agree to disagree on ethics. As a business person and in my personal life, I find ethics incredibly important and don’t have respect for those who operate without decent principles. If you’ve ever owned a business and had your trademark or intellectual capital rights violated, you’d likely understand that.

That said, I’m 100 percent in favor of us all being able to share our opinions and experiences with the businesses that serve this market, whether positive or negative, without a fear of being censored or banned. No one has to be concerned about disagreeing with me. I have two teenage kids. I’m more surprised when they agree with me! I just wanted to share my knowledge and experience with this developer with others. He clearly felt that he had no ethical issues with infringing on another developer’s intellectual property because he claimed he had the idea in his head a long time. But the other developer had used the trademark in the marketplace and registered it in multiple countries long prior to this developer introducing a line of sample libraries with the same name. It’s a slam dunk trademark infringement that violates international trademark law. Interpol actually quotes me in their documents on this very topic. I know it well. But I realize that there are a lot of people who don’t care about ethics or laws in this area. Obviously, I do and just wanted to share why, although this developer seems very talented, I won’t purchase from his company.

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