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Yes my friends you must see the whole situation
Getaron switches are clearly Cherry fakes. They don't have Gold Crosspoint Technology (TM) which clearly means they are not authentic Cherry.
As a world-tier Cherry connesuir, I cannot endorse the sale of these switches.
We must work together as a community to end Gatorade tyranny
What did you say to them wood? Completely flipped in 30 minutes.
billnye is trolling, don't worry about that.
What called my attention is how good at it the community is now.
How good at what the community is now? Accepting gateron/gaote/kaihua switches?
I think that cost is the hot button at backside of this question...most people, myself included, have a problem with an alledged knockoff that is the same cost, not lower, as the original, am I wrong?
I do not have anything against clones, their availability will make the prices of switches to get down, eventually. The patent is already lapsed so any company with the proper resources can make some MX'es. Different alternatives and sources are good for keyboard enthusiasts so I do not see any harm in that side in my humble opinion.
What seems to be like a double politics is now "us" cheering up for a switch clone GB while some of the same members criticized a vendor who offered some other clones just a few months ago. In the other hand is a good thing that GH is now more open to these new alternatives in the keyboard switch market.
Apparently was when a vendor started selling �red� and �brown� keyswitches that looked very similar to MX, without explicitly pointing out that they were knockoffs. Seller got crucified because people rightly thought it was shady.
Yeah, the whole issue there was that they were marketed as Cherry MX. And unless I'm mistaken and this is a completely unrelated situation,
this thread should be relevant. I don't recall seeing anyone up in arms about the existence of clones (it's perfectly acceptable, now that the patent has expired). The issue was marketing (or potentially marketing) them as legitimate.
But again, it's possible that the situation in question is different from what I'm referring to.