Great Posts

[Anonymous]

During the last few weeks, I have had the time of my life reading all the new technical posts.
Dave Johnson, Thomas Breuer, Robert Hoolko, Eric Foster, Mark Pauls, etc, etc, have made the last few weeks very special and something to remember.
This is the kind of thing that makes the Internet such a powerful tool. We have seen input from places as diverse as, the <IMG SRC="/forums/images/flag.jpg" BORDER=0 ALT="USA">, Germany, Denmark, Russia, Great Britain, etc.
Everybody has come away with at least a few new ways to think about things and I am sure, many of us are all dying to try some of the ideas that have been posted on our work benches.
I agree 100% that our worst enemies are patents held by companies who would monopolize the detector industry. In my opinion, the industry is not large enough for smaller detector companies to pay back the very heavy investment of the kind required for world wide patent protection.
I am quite sure that the reason we are seeing the very high prices demanded by Minelab for their PI detectors is due in part to their trying to recoup their investment in patent attorney charges.
Together, we can flourish by sharing our ideas. Everyone's horizons will be raised and all of us will benefit. I for one welcome an open technology forum. To this end I will soon be posting some disclosures of my own. Dave Emery. * * *

 

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

If you put periods, wysiwyg: U.S.A.
without periods, flag: <IMG SRC="/forums/images/flag.jpg" BORDER=0 ALT="USA">
at least that's how it was last time I did the test. since this is an international forum and the world is not an American lake, I thought this to be an inappropriate place to be waving the flag.

 

[Anonymous]

A number of people have posted engineering design ideas in this forum. Some of these people are experimenter-hobbyists, trying to advance the state of the art. Some are people who earn their living in this industry, publishing information that they could have kept secret to their own potential advantage. The resulting public exchange of information is good for the industry as a whole, including those who cannot participate in this forum for fear of losing their jobs.
If an engineer borrows a design idea from this forum (or elsewhere, for that matter), and the company uses that idea in a product,
IT WOULD BE THE HONORABLE THING TO DO, to credit in ad copy or the owner's manual, the person whose idea was used, even if it originated with a competitor.
For this to happen, the project engineer would have to do the honorable thing and tell company management, who otherwise wouldn't know. Then it would be up to management to do the honorable thing, which would cost the company nothing, and would boost the company's public image of fair business practice and technological excellence.