Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is going straight to the Tour de France listserve... - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 4:12 PM Subject: [Leica] intentionally off topic > Sometimes I stay up late trying to figure out how to keep you guys from > being so rude to one another. Sometimes I don't, of course. Sleep is good. > > My opinion is that it's OK to discuss photography with any rangefinder > cameras on the Leica list. A good rangefinder camera that is not a > Leica can serve only to challenge Leica Camera to make better products, > and a bad rangefinder camera that is not a Leica can serve to remind us > of what we like about doing photography with Leicas. > > But I promised you something off topic. > > I participate at the edge of the community of intellectual property > law. Today I got word of a trademark dispute between "whizzinator.com" > and "the genuine Whizzinator". > > If I were these people I'd want to stay far away from lawyers. You can > see the product of the holder of the "Whizzinator" trademark at > > http://thewhizzinator.com/ > (Undetectable! Foolproof! Re-usable!) > > Prepare to be amazed.