Reed Merrill
Member
It's easy to say that, until you're personally faced with organizing an event of that scale. Turning away the money and support they bring to the party hurts the event, not the sponsors. Rubik's Brand is going to benefit from any press covering competitions regardless of whether or not they sponsor them. Only speedsolvers know no one is using a Rubik's brand in competitions, the rest of the world sees a bunch of "Rubik's Cubes".
I see the same basic problem with the boycott talk. Only the speedsolving community cares and we're already passively boycotting Rubik's brand because they're inferior. You can't inflict any damage with a boycott when you're not spending any money there in the first place.
Not just to poo-poo on ideas or attack anyone's suggestions but I think you have to consider where the carrots and sticks are.
Ok, good point! For the other side of my post about how things like this dispute over similar products have almost always just fizzled out, do you agree? I don't think that we need to worry too much about this lawsuit.