@bigkid posted:Anyone remember when more than a few were cursing Mike Wolf because of the lawsuit with Lionel over the purloined4 IP? Lot of those same people are now singing his praises, tells you how time heals some wounds (though from reading some of the posts on this thread, I suspect some people didn't let that go). My take? MTH and Mike furthered the hobby, they gave us products we wouldn't have had if it weren't for MTH, and that is something to celebrate. I could wish that this would have played out where Mike had it all wrapped up, where he could say "I am going fishing, but MTH will keep on thanks to my employees/another company buying it", but that didn't happen, it is what it is. Hopefully the DCS support going on will be mirrored by other parts of the company, in some form or the other. Whatever happens, we are still better than we were 40 years ago, when all you had was Lionel MPC and Williams pretty much, and likely things will still be better going forward.
I am one of them, I thought what he did was not right and I always will. I never bought anything MTH and never did because of the different operating systems. So I have no sense of loss at all for MTH. On the flip side, I do think it may have an adverse effect on the hobby, but it may cause Atlas O to get up off their butts and start producing loco's and not at a snail's pace.
