stiffening plate for $53!

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Originally Posted by Shawn Clark

About the plate in this thread, I would have ethical issues with ordering unauthorized copies of someone else's design.

I feel the same way in this particular case because Brian of BT Tech, the inventor of the beefed up stiffening plate and recently, tragically deceased, seemed to be the most decent of people.

I felt the same way about buying non-Polartec brand synthetic fleece products because Malden Mills, the inventor of synthetic fleece, was at one time the most decent and humane of companies (see, e.g., The Mensch Of Malden Mills - CBS News).

If there were measures that Brian and Malden Mills could have taken to protect their legal rights to their creations, I wish Brian and Malden Mills would have taken them.