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Ohhh! Trollbait! Om nom nom... I should correct you there... no one was aggressive, ignorant or childish towards you, a total MIDIbox newbie coming along with grandiose ideas of "commercializing" the non-commercial DIY MIDIbox platform before you ever took a soldering iron to PCB and built one yourself. If anyone was ignorant and childish it was you... first for being ignorant of the wishes of the community before you even posted, and childish for not accepting the polite denial of permission to start making money off something you neither contributed to nor was even involved with for longer than it took you to write your post. Frankly, I don't think anyone cares what you've been doing for the past four years, but I will highlight something interesting for everyone else reading this thread, especially newbies who might think that permission to do big things with MIDIbox is never granted. Around four years ago, I started designing MB-6582, which led to being given permission to sell MB-6582 PCBs, then I sold about 4000 6582A SIDs, a few hundred OPL3 chipsets, a couple thousand rotary encoders, designed an MB-SEQ control surface, sold a few of those PCBs, designed sammichSID, sold 200 of those (and still going). I built MIDIboxes for me first, and then shared the designs, helped others on the forum. I contributed to the community first, and then sold things which would primarily benefit the existing community. Then when I presented the sammichSID idea to TK, one that comes dangerously close to being "commercial", I was given permission, because I had an established track record of doing things for the community. That's just one example of how it's done, and that it can be done. In contrast, all you did was start a thread called "Intent to sell midiboxes" with the idea of... selling MIDIboxes. "I'll build one for me first and then sell them pre-built on eBay" is the essential gist of your post. I find it interesting that the people who actually build MIDIboxes thank me and others for all the help we provide, and think this is a great community. The only ones who think we're aggressive, ignorant, childish, elitist, rude, epic superdouches, etc. are new or non-members who don't like being told that selling pre-built MIDIboxes is against the spirit of the community. Maybe you should actually pick up the soldering iron and build something... then you might actually understand where we come from.