[Mike Rivers]

wrote:

I think what happened with Fender is that the Strat became so
ubiquitous that it lost its ability to claim damage. And you had a
few companies gingerly shipping strat copies, and when the sky didn't
fall it eventually became the 500 companies doing it today, and that's
that.

Well, look at how many companies are making double cutaway electric
guitars, yet Gibson singled out PRS to go after, and they (Gibson) won.
Maybe they were concerned that the PRS was really a better guitar than
they were selling.

A couple of early Behringer products were carbon copies, but they now
have their own engineering department, that makes its own mistakes and
has its own successes. Still, how many ways can you make a speaker or a
mixer look and still have it perform its intended function?

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