There's a subtle but important distinction to be made here. Ganzo isn't cloning knives. They're making knives that are visually very similar to those of other manufacturers, but they're totally up front that they're the company making the knife, and what it's made from - most notably the 440C blades. They aren't making clones which are knives that are marked as originals, named as originals, and made to be as indistinguishable from the originals as possible. Benchmade's patent on the Axis lock has expired, so copying it and calling it something else is as fair game as making a frame lock now. Making knives that are visually similar but marked as your own is similar to slip joint makers making and selling Sodbusters, Canoes, Barlows, and all the other classic patterns. The Ganzo above is actually sized in between the two sizes of Benchmade / HK knife that it's designed after. The only thing that Ganzo is doing illegally is using Spyderco's trademarked perfectly circular blade hole on some models. That frustrates me, because Spyderco is a great company, and all Ganzo needs to do is switch to an oblong hole like every other Spyderco competitor.
You are entitled to your opinion, and you certainly wont change mine.
So if the next model of Spyderco Ganzo copies is the ARK you'd be cool with it. As long as they mark it Ganzo?
John and Sam's hard work is now public domain?
Ganzo copies others design and RD work. I won't support that.