Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/16

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Explanation high production cost
From: Jim Laurel <jplaurel@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 08:58:17 -0700

What Dan's saying here is that the patents were war booty, that's all.  And
let's not even go near the morality issue wrt the Germans and wwii.

> 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
>