Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:08 PM 5/11/98 +0200, Raimo Korhonen wrote: >If a copy performs "better" than an original it cannot - in your own terms >- be a copy. "It can be identical, yes, but not superior" - and if it is, >it is not a copy, then. I do not think that the Gauss formula was invented >by Zeiss as Carl Friedrich Gauss lived 1777-1855 and certainly he did not >get any compensation from Nikon. You logic is infallible, but your grasp of the facts is weak. The Nikon copies of Zeiss lenses and the Canon copies of Zeiss and at least one Leitz design were exact copies. Even the threading on the internal fitments were identical to those from the originals. In other words, it isn't just a bland infringement -- they COPIED the lenses, completely, down to the internal mechanical construction as well as the precise optical configuration. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!