Rob,

This might sound a little strange, but if you think about it, it kind of fits into the Empeg (pre-SB) philosophy of doing things.

How about making the Autocad files of the Mk1 sled "Open Source"?

Since the manufacture of the sled for the Mk1 by Empeg would be a difficult, time-consuming (and I suspect costly) exercise for little profit, then if you placed the sled design in the public domain, people with an absolute need for this could conceiveably take it to a local manufacturer with the ability to make them, or modify them to include the "side flaps" mod for easier insertion (discovered on this BBS, and fed into the Mk2 - stand up and take your round of applause, bmihulka) and any other special features that they may desire.

Empeg could retain copyright under the GPL, and mods could be fed back in exactly the same way as code changes.

What do you think? Rob? Hugo?

One of the few remaining Mk1 owners... #00015