I love making hardware for the open source community, and I love it when others do amazing things with the hardware that I create.
What a lot of people unfortunately do not realise, is that when people directly take mechanical and design concepts and then directly sell to the same market, they are not encouraging innovation, they are destroying progress in the critical areas of development.
Buying genuine hardware allows us to spend our resources on the community, and to hire more engineers from the community.
as you all know, there are products out there that directly take from the cube concept, but rather than take people on in the legal system, we would rather that the community decides with their own feet, whats right, and what is wrong.
We would encourage our competitors to innovate in areas that do not directly take our core concepts. and we ask the community to encourage this innovation and diversity in options for the community.