RE: Peeing contest--let's go
Well, let's try some analogies:
"Saleen and Ford are the same company. Ford makes the Mustang. Saleen Mustangs are the same car, only different."
"Wal-Mart and Ocean Spray are the same company. Wal-Mart sells cranberry juice, both Wal-mart brand and Ocean Spray. Ocean Spray makes and bottles both brands of juice at their bottling plant and ships them to Wal-Mart."
"Acer and Toshiba are the same company. Toshiba sells notebook computers in Acer clamshells assembled at Acer factories. Toshiba and Acer are in bed together."
All of the above statements are similar to:
"Spektrum and JR are the same company. Spektrum radios are made by JR in JR radio cases and sold with JR servos. JR and Spektrum are the same."
JR and Spektrum have something very large in common with one another, namely Horizon Hobby. JR is an OEM manufacturer of Radio Control products who manufactures items to be sold around the world. Spektrum is a brand name and a set of intellectual property owned by one of JR's distributors, Horizon Hobby, who resells and distrubutes JR products in the North American marketplace. JR has other distributors throughout the world, and Horizon Hobby distributes for a lot of other companies besides JR in the North American marketplace.
The Spektrum product line is actually very similar in concept to the Tower Hobbies brand product line sold through Tower Hobbies. Futaba supplies radios, servos, and other accessories per Tower Hobbies' specifications to be resold under the Tower Hobbies brand name. JR supplies radios, servos, and other accessories per Horizon Hobby's specifications to be resold under the Spektrum brand name.
No matter how much you like cranberry juice, Wal-Mart and Ocean Spray aren't the same company.