haven said:
A couple of posts back in this thread I remarked that the Warrior Scout model looked a lot like the camper that Kym Bolton designed. I wrote to Kym, and he confirmed that the photo on the Warrior web site is of the camper he hired Warrior to build for him.
Since Kym has plans to sell replicas of his camper design, he is not happy that Warrior is selling an identical product, and using a photo of Kym's truck to advertise it! Hopefully this can be straightened out to everyone's satisfaction.
In the meantime, I think Warrior should not be on anyone's list of "heroes."
Chip Haven
First of all, the heroes comment . . . just expressing my admiration for a beautiful Mitsubishi Expedition Camper - this forum right?
I hear you on the photos. But unless Mr Bolton designed the camper himself or paid for the rights to the design or the intellectual property, then he has no rights to the design - at least that is how it works in the US. If he actually detailed the design then that's a different story.
I manage an engineer dept, and we frequently take money (NRE) to build custom products for customers. Unless the customers specifically pay for the tooling and the sole rights to the customization design, we later offer this customization to all our customers as an standard option. This is how we keep development costs down while offering more options to our customers.
I'm sure AT Warrior is leveraging this custom design in the same way, and in the end will benefit to others like Bolton. Anyhow, that's my $.02.
