[Russ Noble]

OK guys, have you ever seen Oliver so restrained in his comments?

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You guys are truly not from this Earth!!

Oliver


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I can see the reason Oliver would make that statement.

The RF situation is a very sad state of affairs considering how good IMHO the product is/was. I do not have an RF so am totally unbiased and of course may not have some information that customers or owners have. But it is my impression that Robert was intent on providing his customers with a top product and has been carrying out ongoing R&D for some time to further improve it and to ensure it met increasingly onerous legislative demands now and in the future. An excellent approach to ensuring improvement and continued access to markets. You can't fault him there.

I think this probably used up valuable resources to the detriment of the short term viability of the operation. The move to South Africa does not seem to have helped either. When a business starts to run into trouble any owner will try and juggle things to overcome what is inevitably perceived as a short term setback. I believe he is a genuine guy with a great product who has run into problems and I too wish him well and hope that this can be resolved satisfactorily for all parties. It may be too late for that now, but nevertheless it's obvious a lot of people share these sentiments.

Equally obviously Oliver doesn't, but that's his right, and in view of his pretty restrained (by his standards) responses, why not cut him some slack and avoid inflaming things again?
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Regards