All of this bickering reminds me of this time, in my previous field, where a couple of different guys took an OEM, off the shelf, factory hydraulic pump (fixed displacement reciprocating piston) and modified the swash plate by adding 2* of angle for more displacement. Then one tried to patent it, never followed through, then went around on Facebook and other online forums trying to discredit and bash everyone else who had the idea to modify the pump.
The important part here, is that this pump design has existed since like the 1940s (maybe even earlier idk) and anyone who's ever worked anywhere near hydraulic equipment can, with caveman intelligence, notice that the angle of the plate determines the flow rate. More angle, more flow. Furthermore, an angle is already set by the factory, your just adding more angle.
There IS (guy is still around) this guy who, for the last maybe 15 years or so, sells slightly modified factory Honeywell (Garret) turbochargers. He would pop in and out and call everyone who was selling aftermarket turbos retarded for a week or so, get bullied by anyone over room temp IQ, then leave for another 5-6 months. Nothing has changed in the past decade, people still send me screenshots of the nym account and his other aliases and friends. As far as were aware, he's never actually designed or built anything original, different, or better than existing products. He could never sell them, ever. He's build a laughably silly "brand" by bashing others, joining groups and privately messaging naive newcomers as they enter looking for "alternatives". Which is sad because at the time, I fought hard against some of the more established companies, because none of the "engineers" ever went to school (often said that part out loud) nor had experience designing mechanical products. They mostly realized that you could match the design of other existing products by grinding a little here, and a little there, marking up the product by 20% and selling a "bigger" part. Which, among many shortcomings, often failed prematurely compared to factory "upgraded" parts. We found the hard way that once you actually build a company that starts selling units in volume, real companies can keep up and grow with you, the ones who built a brand by copying others failed, and failed hard, and they take you down with them. Pie in the sky until you run 5k units and realize the product was so bad now _your_ customers are mad.
Anyway the lesson I'm sharing is that people like this exist in every field, they think they're smarter than everyone, but rarely produce anything worth value. They may actually have better ideas in their head, but fail to articulate it, produce it, and cooperate with others to spread it. You can't sell an idea without proof that it's actually better. Furthermore, just because an idea is better, doesn't mean it's going to win, and in many cases, it probably wont. That's life.
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