any aspiring leatherworker, young or old, should be encouraged to continue his traverse into leather craft! everyone on this site has copied someone else's work at one time or another. if you do not wish to help with a pattern, so be it. but do not beat down these people for thinking so highly of you to ask you for your pattern. i seriously doubt any of these people live near enough to put a dent into your "business" of selling your leather goods! everyone needs to get along. encourage more people to continue this craft, it is a dying art.