Yes that part I knew. But I heard other news that I was hoping to prove correct or wrong. I won’t say what that was because at this point is rumor. Is all.
There is absolutely no doubt he was a great designer and a great person. I wish him well.
Yes… I spent many an aes hanging out with Dave. Others did as well. Dave showed us the real nyc. Biergartens one time, egg creams at Gem spa, totono’s the best pizza in ny out at Coney Island.
Why not call him? Or write an email. Just talking out of my ass, really...
Lost contact, hence forth….
I sent an email. Not sure if he's still using that old account. Looking back at our communications back then reminded me of another precipitating incident, but I'm not dredging that up again. Suffice it to say that there were probably several factors that caused Dave to decide to stop participating actively. He's a good guy and shared several interesting designs of his own along with insights into his design rationale.
I just want to point out that I don't know how can someone post a new design on the internet, and later complain that it was later stolen
If they make it clear that the design is theirs and can only be copied for personal and not commercial use eaxactly as I do for my open source PCB designs which are freely available on the internet.
Ian, don't be naïve. If you post a design on an internet forum, you can't complain that it was stolen. Come on. If you want to prevent that you go through the correct procedure, either patent it or whatever, but to think that a fine print saying "Do not steal it" is enough, is totally disingenious.
So far only one of my designs has ever been stolen and just the one time. So maybe the protection does work or maybe all my designs are just not worth stealing.
The stealing of work was but one of the factors and was not related to the incident I mentioned. Times were different and this community was very different in 2005-08 than it is now.
Well, in my opinion, if I don't want any intellectual property being stolen, I register it, either copyright or patent, and don't post it over the internet for everyone to see. But if I happen to do post it, then I know that I shouldn't complain that it was stolen. That is my personal opinion, but I digress..
Totally agree...
