Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wow........... Walt On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Marc James Small wrote: > At 12:54 PM 1999-01-08 -0600, Walter S Delesandri, yet once again, made a > fool of himself by writing: > >Yes, those thieving japs.....the same ones that brought us those > >crappy Nikons -- you know, that junky F/F2 and that piss-poor > >Nikon SP -- the one that kicked the ass of Leitz/Zeiss..... > >How dare them make the finest cameras yet built and price them > >so that a mortal could buy them......the bastards. > > > Try out the truth, brother: the Japanese optical industry STOLE -- took > without paying! -- German designs, and the Allies refused to allow Zeiss > and Leitz and Voigtlander to protect themselves at law. They got a free > start. Zeiss had been designing optical devices for 99 years when the > Japanese simply TOOK what they wanted. > > Any morons, even the most idiotic buffoons, could build a profitable > industry on this. Think on it, and don't answer UNTIL you have thought, as > you have a deplorable trait of suffering from foot-in-mouth disease. IF > you were granted the right to theft all of Nikon or Canon's patents, > guaranteed, no penalties, RIGHT NOW -- couldn't you establish one heck of a > camera company on this foundation? > > No, the Japanese are thieves. Those who buy Canon or Nikon gear are > abetting thievery. The history is clean and clear. Sure, I've shot Canon > for years -- but the ethics of it bother me, intensely. (I DID shoot > Nikon, in the early '70's, but the F2 I had was the poorest excuse for junk > I've ever used, and cured me of this, permanently. This was a camera which > FED would have been embarrassed to have sold. The dealer refused to > replace it, as, so HE said, all F2's were junk. I got a Canon, instead, > but, a decade later, learned the truth about the thieveries, and began to > tailor my equipment to what I was comfortable with.) > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! >