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i dont own any behringer, but if they had something cool i really could give two shits if they stole the idea from someone else.
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I've always felt the same way about Behringer. My first mixer was their MX2004, which I only used for monitoring and sure enough, a couple of faders stopped working after about a 6 month period. Oh, and the noise, my god the noise!!!I swore to never buy anything from them again, even if they made guitar picks, I wouldn't do it.
The copy-cat design issue was the least of my concern. The fact that their mixers look like Mackies, their monitors look like Genelecs, or whatever else, who the f*** cares? Just make shit that works! Don't have a budget for better designers, at least spend some money in quality control for f***'s sake!
The horror stories I've heard from all the suckers who bought their Truth monitors, oh my. Loose screws right out of the box, loose tweeters and/or just non-functioning tweeters, right out of the box, and on and on. When they were released, they retailed for about $700. One year later, they were down to $349 a pair. Z'at say something?
Crap, absolute crap.
That said, I think they serve a purpose for a certain demographic. The young and hungry, eager to learn about signal routing, all the fundamentals, basically, nothing wrong with Behringer products, so that once they start moving up the gear chain, they can hear what a difference quality products can make, and then it'll be their turn to bash the big, bad B.