Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Explanation high production cost
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 00:44:40 -0400
 
At 09:31 PM 15-04-98 -0400, you wrote:
>At 07:51 PM 4/15/98 -0400, Dan Cardish wrote:
>>If this "outright theft" of German patents occured right after World War
>>II, then as far as I'm concerned, all bets are off.
>
>
>Dan
>
>I'm not certain what you are suggesting here, but if you are trying to say
>that theft is ever acceptable, then you are possessed of a sliding-scale
>morality that I cannot accept.
>
>Marc
>

I am not sure of the details of how these patents ended up in Japanese
hands, but what you are calling "theft", others may call "war reparations"

Dan C.