Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Kindermann Canada camrea servicing
From: Mike Leitheiser <flyh2o@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 14:06:34 -0800

No.  No more than attempting to hire a skilled plumber, electrician, cabinet
maker,candy maker or baker......now if the baker or candy maker brings along the
companies proprietary formula for chocolate chip cookies or lofat/losugar
chocolate creams you have another issue.

Martin Howard wrote:

> Mike Leitheiser jotted down the following:
>
> > Horse Hockey.  Soliciting someone to obtain confidential or proprietary
> > information about a competitor is certainly fraught with ethical and legal
> > issues, but simple employment?   Horse Hockey!
> >
>
> If you are a company that does Leica repairs and you try to recruit the
> employees of another company that does Leica repairs, would the purpose not
> be to obtain "confidential or proprietary information" in the form of the
> skills, knowledge, and capabilities which those employees would bring?
>
> M.
>
> --                               | You can lead a horse to water, but
> Martin Howard                    | you can't get him to use floats when
> email : mvhoward@mac.com         | playing in the baby-pool.
>   web : http://mvhoward.i.am/    +--------------------------------------

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Mike Leitheiser
Lake Oswego, Oregon

"When the trout are lost, smash the state."
   Tom McGuane