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I'm not seeing the bullying here. Two companies engaged on a partnership, it didn't work out and now they're both airing the laundry.

The deal didn't make sense for either party. It happens.

What I find interesting is that none of the clone criticism seemed to impact the excitement about working with behringer in the first place, assuming the deal made sense.

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“It didn’t work out”

But behringer went ahead and used all the devilfish ideas in their product. It didn’t work out would be the deal collapsed and nobody made the clone.

RWI doesn't own the Devilfish ideas (even if they were patented, they would've expired by now since Robin's been doing this since 1993), so the business deal was really over the Devilfish brand name and endorsement.

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