"I still don't understand the complete 180 of opinion several of the posters in this thread have flipped compared to threads in the past. Everyone is always ranting about manufacturers not being loyal and this is an example of just how loyal Fortress was to the existing dealer"

Exactly! It's normally people complaining about s**p giving dealerships to anyone with a pulse and lately their ripoff of intellectual property with their landscape series.

Here we have an integrator that seems to have taken someone else's intellectual property and a manufacturer trying to protect their dealer and not give anyone who inquires a dealership. They seem to be doing exactly what many/most on here would want done with them if someone tried taking one of their qoutes and establishing a dealership to meet the needs of a sold job.

I think turmill is more upset over lost profit than anything to do with ethics.