I wouldn’t think so? I guess the more relevant distinction is between old, well-understood tech and more complex digital or digitally-controlled stuff. I don’t want to be an apologist for Behringer, I think some of their decisions have been in poor taste, but it would be odd if music tech avoided the massive price deflation that’s occurred in every other branch of consumer electronics.
I do think that the analog renaissance has a strong element of fashion to it. Which is not a diss, I understand the appeal and would have a room full of it if I could afford to. The fashion will turn though, the marketplace will wash out a lot of smaller players, and only those who offer the best or the best value will survive. What I’m saying is, that process could actually hit Behringer pretty hard too if they over invest in cloning old tech.
Ah that’s pretty shitty. So what does this mean for this guy? Can he sue them or will they just make Behringer slap a credit in the fine print of the manual?
I think he just technically asked to be credited but it is open source (not creative commons) so it is more an honor system type deal. To me its just a pretty bad look for behringer who have tried to make it look like they are studying the old hardware and fully making clones of them rather than going in and copying other peoples work. Although from the sounds of it they copied work from more than just one person so there might be someone who could sue if they didn’t fully open source.
Could he not choose to pull it and they’d have to cease production or is it a case of once it’s out the bag it’s out? Def not a good look but I don’t think B really care about that. Shame for the dude though
I’m pretty sure once you make something open source or creative commons it is out there forever, creative commons has some stipulations like non commercial use and such but once it is out there you can’t really take it back as a protection for people who decided to use it.
