Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 19:24 Subject: RE: [Leica] Hexar RF/M7 > Unfortunately, Anthony, your view of what a company needs > to do to survive is only valid if the company is privately > held, and held by owners whose definition of profit is modest. Yes. That's one of the problems with publicly-held companies. > If, like Leica, a company is publicly held, it exists not > to produce a top-of-the-line product, but to make money for > the stockholders - and if the stock holders don't like the > profit picture, they bail. Yes. This is why going public can be the beginning of the end for such companies. -- Anthony