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Taki Board Copy
Posted By: Phil Simborg In Response To: Taki Board Copy (Rich Munitz)
Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009, at 4:42 p.m.
Funny, all cars on the street seem to have very similar wiper blades. And tires. All leather boards seem to be about the exact same size and design. When I was in real estate I founded the Corporate Services Group for Grubb and Ellis to provide a specialized service to corporations. One month later C@W had a group they called "Corporate Services."
Can you show me a backgammon board that is really different and better than most of the others?
I believe competition is good. FM has made some seriously great improvements to the wooden board. I know, I've owned 4 Taki boards and I spent a lot of time and money fixing the wooden pieces that have broken off, repairing the back that comes loose, and replacing the surface that quickly wears out and gets easily stained. FM has improved all of these.
Lastly, FM will clearly concentrate on the European market, and one reason there is a great market for their boards is that import taxes and shipping costs make it very difficult for Taki to sell his boards there...Taki hardly ever sells a board outside of the US.
A few years ago, someone made some beautiful wooden cups. Now there are several who make them, and they are all similar. Before that, someone started making precision dice...again, you can get them from different sources.
Someone invented Jellyfish, and then came Snowie, GNUBG and now Extremegammon. Each was an improvement on the previous, but each incorporated many of the ideas of the previous. Why aren't people screaming at the people who made the later versions of these bots? Because they are good for backgammon, because they are improvement, and because they have every right, in a free economy, to take previous ideas and improve on them.
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