Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Where's Joe?
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:32:50 +0000

At 12:23 PM 12/21/01 -0800, thomas schofield wrote:
>
>Isn't Schneider's name also on Samsung and Rollei P&S cameras?  Maybe Leica 
>wants to avoid name association with them, or perhaps Samsung/Rollei have 
>rights to the name and don't want to be associated with Leica!

Samsung is long gone from the Rollei connection.  Leica simply paid JSK
enough to avoid having to use the JSK name.  Local pride and all that.

Marc

msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!

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