[Leica] Why a digital M

[masonster at gmail.com (David Mason)]

I don't think you understand what I am saying... there is no way in
Hell Kodak would let a consultant change the source code for their
firmware. I don't care what kind of deal Leica has with them. Leica
most likely will tell Kodak what they like and don't like with the
work and then Kodak engineers will change it - maybe. Unless it is not
proprietory, or it is in-house there is no way a company that makes
its money on intellectual property is ever going risk their
proprietary code.

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 07:50:33 -0700, Frank Filippone
<red735i@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Regardless of what you want to call it, the earliest processing programs
> must be innovative.  Forget Kodak, the solution from them will be
> "standard".  Leica needs to have a real genius brew up the preprocessing
> software so that it is both innovative and proprietary.
> 
> Otherwise your great Leica Digital will be the same as the $99 Target
> special.
>