I will refrain from judgement on the issue until it becomes clear what the agreement states about Marlin being supplied with the knuckles from TG. It would seem to make the most sense if they got them at cost and thus could sell them at the same price. So in the end all that would result is TG getting free R&D.
That's just me thinking out loud though, I think the whole TG ethics issue is really not something that can be properly judged since most of us know very little of what is actually going on.
I think you've made a very similar comment in the past, and were reminded then also that you may have joined after a lot of this went down and had missed a lot of pertinent info. There is no question on tg's ethics from members who caught on to what went down, and it's actually kinda irritating when newer members keep piping up and saying "we don't have the facts/don't know anything about the situation, and should not judge". Some of us know enough to KNOW, not judge!