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Just want to say Thank You for all your work with HX. Appreciate your efforts making an awesome product.No, I get it.
My threshold for offering full respect has always been very low and very clear. Above the line is the 99% of MI companies that strive to operate and market in good faith. We all just want to make a living designing and developing gear that people use and love. If I don't happen to like a particular product, I won't disparage it (unless of course it's one of ours... and it's long discontinued). However, I LOVE a ton of gear other companies make.
Below the line you'll find the remaining 1%, who predictably and consistently pull shady $#¡‡, sometimes customer-facing but often behind the scenes: Refusing to pay vendors, refusing to pay licensees, lying to customers, lying to dealers, bullying independent dealers, price fixing, patent trolling, actively sniping associates for damage purposes, fostering a toxic work environment, bullying forum administrators into giving up members' information, then suing said forum members for disparaging comments, violating NDAs, blatant IP theft, blatant trade dress infringement, code theft, never picking up their dog's poop, talking or texting in a movie theater, blasting terrible music from bluetooth speakers on hiking trails, never using their turn signal, or unironically rooting for Gordon Gecko, Patrick Bateman, or Tyler Durden.
Y'know, douchebags.
Native alone has shaped the way I record music these days, it's been an invaluable tool.