Posted by Kyle Smith on August 13, 2000 at 22:48:31:
In Reply to: Your idea was stolen form inventions.com posted by The Matrix on August 10, 2000 at 23:41:04:
What kind of person looks all this stuff up? Are you people so screwed up that you have to try to make us feel as if we didn't win the thing fair and square? You, my friend, need a life. It was just a competition. It wasn't that big of a deal. Are you THAT insecure that you think that we couldn't have come up with a good product on our own and we had to steal it? Also, get the balls to say it with your real name instead of this crap "The Matrix" name. You see that I posted with my real name.
First off, from this page you made a URL to, I saw NOTHING about sensors or anything else. We had sensors to provide up-to-date information. You might think this is a very insignificant difference, but I assure you, it made OUR product unique. Who's to say we can't improve upon some other person's product? I've never heard of a law against improving upon products. Maybe you could enlighten me. Secondly, the fact that there are people that have already made similar products should tell you how strong our idea is and that it was valid. I fail to see your logic in thinking that the only reason we won is because we were "unprofessional" (as many people called us after our presentation). We were obviously professional enough because the venture capitalists announced us as the winner. If you got a problem with that, you're just going to have to live with it. Thirdly, there was more than one group doing something similar to our product. They also didn't find any products that were considered to infringe on any patents.
Now, that's two groups that couldn't find anything about other products vs one little prick that can't take rejection or a loss. Just "take it like a man" and stop whining and complaining.