Glad EB uses Indian rosewood...

**brownpants69** · 11-18-2009, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by Big Poppa

Expression is good within reason. I just would love for everyone to hang in the center for awhile and then we can decide how we want to deal with it.

But what have I done to deserve mentioning that there are no environment threads here?
Maybe because we have won awards before it was trendy? Maybe because we voluntarily submit to inspections?

I wasn't saying anything about how you do business or source wood. I was commenting how some forumites will use this as ammo for bashing Gibson. Sorry if I offended you- not my intention. I just hate to see threads that descend into bashing other brands, when we are/should be above that.

By the way, but do you think anyone will ever get a their own signiature Luke or AL? (other than Luke or AL!!!)

**Kaloyan** · 11-18-2009, 03:08 PM

I think somebody will. Somebody that is as unique as those two guys

**Dante** · 11-18-2009, 04:04 PM

Originally Posted by Big Poppa

Remember Microsoft raided me, publically humiliated me and were wrong....

i hope u got a cheque to cash or two.

**Big Poppa** · 11-18-2009, 04:08 PM

no offense taken just an open conversation!

**ScoobySteve** · 11-18-2009, 04:44 PM

Originally Posted by Big Poppa

If they did it. Remember Microsoft raided me, publically humiliated me and were wrong....hard to unring a bell. Stay in the middle but pay attention

Don't mean to ninja the thread, but I read that EB had chosen Linux over MS at one point?

Related story?

**PeteDuBaldo** · 11-18-2009, 06:20 PM

Google it, or use the search. EB wound up doing their own thing and not using MS, and were one of the first (if not THE first) big companies to do so. Pretty interesting read...

**Larry** · 11-18-2009, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by PeteDuBaldo

Google it, or use the search. EB wound up doing their own thing and not using MS, and were one of the first (if not THE first) big companies to do so. Pretty interesting read...

I remember reading about it on the forum and never really looked into it. A quick Google search dug this up:

Rockin' on without Microsoft - CNET News

**e.mate** · 11-19-2009, 04:28 AM

Staying in the middle is the name of game....and even if I tend to be polemic easily, I'd definitely regard Gibson innocent unless proven guilty. Period.

Europe is getting flooded by mass production cheapo sh** from China sold through Ebay "dealers" to kids that have no idea what they're buying there...and were all those woods come from

Those planks get dumped only some two or three years later because those kids either quit guitar playing or have already outgrown that non-playable rubbish. And then it lands on the waste hills in Nowhereland...

China is one of the biggest wood importers in the world...

**Kaloyan** · 11-19-2009, 09:17 AM

You're right

**DrKev** · 11-20-2009, 10:43 AM

I stumbled across this short article today...

Raided by the Feds, Gibson sings the Supplier Performance and Risk Blues

**Big Poppa** · 11-20-2009, 12:28 PM

the ceo of gibson has elected to step down from the board of the rainforest coalition in what appears to be a mutual decision until the facts are judged

**paranoid70** · 11-20-2009, 01:12 PM

Ball told his IT department he wanted Microsoft products out of his business within six months. "I said, 'I don't care if we have to buy 10,000 abacuses,'" recalled Ball, who recently addressed the LinuxWorld trade show. "We won't do business with someone who treats us poorly."

Wow, that's awesome BP... I wish you ran our company.

**douglasspears** · 11-20-2009, 01:33 PM

what kind of Rosewood are the Rosewood Axii and Axii SS made from? Whatever it is, I love mine!!!

haha, I had to look up what an Abacus is......well done!