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Originally Posted by bigben2k
The guy obviously didn't understand anything about the dynamics involved in Cascade, and the impact of the difference in Storm. Yeah, it's not much different, but the difference is significant.
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What was obvious to me was that he was prepared to launch an all out personal assault on myself, as well as lambasting the design, when he didn't have all the information. Now what would motivate someone to do that before they have all the information?
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Originally Posted by bigben2k
Not sure if DTek had any objections to the Cascade coming right out after they started selling the White Water.
Funny how business and engineering don't mix well...
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I was talking to DTek about them making the White Water back in November '02. The first lot of White Water blocks were meant to come out from DTek in Jan/Feb '03. I had just started development work on what would become the Cascade in early Feb and flagged it with them at the time that it was coming one day once I had gotten the design nutted out.
By the time that June/July rolled around, I had finished with the developing the Cascade design, and was down by a large amount of cash by doing so, and DTek were still saying to me that the White Water would be released "soon". Quite honestly at the time that I formally announced that I was going to be selling Cascade blocks to recover development costs I had all but given up on DTek ever actually getting the White Water blocks out the door.
As far as I was concerned there was 8 months for them to make hay without the cloud of the Cascade over the sun, and it got used up with seemingly never-ending manufacturing delays. I was not in a position to wait indefinitely for them to get the White Water out the door. Honestly though, in the small quantities that the Cascade blocks were made in (slightly more than 200 over 8 months) and with Europe and Australia accounting for about 60% of that number, I would not have thought that its rarity in the grand scheme of things could have made much of a dent at all in anyone's sales in the USA.