Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well let me put it this way: after WW II the German designs were made available by Allied occupation forces to anyone without having to pay royalties. Guess who made best use of them. Yes there were a British company Reid & Sigrist and an American company Premier Instrument Co. (and the Russians) who made Leica copies. But that was it (OK, some Italians and French too, but where are they now). BTW nobody made copies of Contax. But the Japanese used the situation that arose and built a whole camera construction industry (but not from scratch - mind you). Technology is important but so is business acumen. Care to comment Marc? Raimo photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen nyt myös Kameralehden juttuja suomeksi - ---------- > From: Mikiro Mori <arbos@iname.com> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Japs stole designs: Offensive and disparging > Date: 09. tammikuuta 1999 19:56 > > At 4:40 PM +0100 1/9/99, Joe Stephenson wrote: > >Dear fellow LUG users: Re: the subject line > >According to the American Heratige dictionary the word "jap" is > >"(disparaging and offensive)." Is this what we want our public utterances to > >reflect? > > Thank you, Joe. > > I have waited to see how other LUGgers would respond to the word. It is by > no means politically correct. However, the real problem is that the > original post was full of ill will toward a specific people or culture. It > was neither a joke nor an objective statement of the putative theft. > > Remember there are quite a few Japanese LUGgers here. I am a Japanese and > believe that this post was an exceptional aberration in this mailing list. > > Cheers, > > Mikiro Mori > Strasbourg, Alsace > ****************** > Visit my gallery at > http://members.tripod.com/arbos3/cigogne/index.html >