[JERRY2KONE]

I fear this is rather the nature of things in the vast business world today. R&D is something only for the big business where they can afford the large sums of $$$$$$ to pay off systems to protect their personal investment and keep this from happening. The rest of us are screwed. The train is now rolling and there is little chance anyone will be able to do in order to stop it now. Mike would have to spend tons of money fighting each and everyone of them as they pop up and he has to prove that they stole his EXACT idea in order to prevent them from selling their version of this product. In the end RCM will have made the initial profits as the first to produce the slipper diff, and will continue to sell to those of us who know where it all started, but the door is open now and stopping all of them will prove futile in the long run. These things can go on for years and never really reach a result that is successful for the original inventor without it costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. Just keep buying the RCM slipper and support Mike the best we can. Sorry if I sound negative, but I try to deal with things from a position of reality.