From sevush@rcn.com Sun Jul 28 08:34:25 2002
Subject:RE: Espionage?

I would be surprised if any company did not thoroughly scrutinize the
competition to learn whatever they could.

Reverse engineering is possible, but quite elaborate.

> A local musician is of the mind that designers of products
> that include electronic music equipment routinely acquire and
> dissect the competition's latest products. Any comments on this?