[SML] Plasa/ESTA breakup

[Richard Niederberg]

When it came to competing, in my humble view, the best example was the
Lighting and Dimming equipment 'Shoot-outs' between Ed Kook from Century
and Joel Rubin from Kliegl, some 40 years ago, before Altman and ETC.
/s/ Richard
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On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Bill Conner via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Charlie Richmond via Stagecraft
> <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> > Indeed.  Despite that I think merging the two would be beneficial (to
> USITT
> > especially), the assumption seems to be that ESTA is constituted by the
> > business community whereas USITT, in my experience, has never been
> > particularly business oriented.
> >
> > C-)
>
> I disagree.  Different organizations serve different constituencies.
> I think the influence of business interests would win out over the
> predominantly not for profit.  More choices is a good thing.  Of
> course I was in a small minority who voted against the ESTA PLASA
> merger 5+ years ago.  Just as it's unfortunate there is practically no
> competition in the theatre  lighting system segment of the market, it
> would be unfortunate to have fewer competing interests in the
> professional associations.  When there is competition, people compete
> by improving and evolving.
>
> --
> Bill Conner Fellow of the ASTC
>
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/s/ Richard
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