Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/22

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Subject: Vs: [Leica] Where's Joe?
From: "Raimo Korhonen" <raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 10:27:20 +0100

Long gone? Does not Samsung own Rollei any more?
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen

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Lähettäjä: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
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Päivä: 22. joulukuuta 2001 0:54
Aihe: Re: [Leica] Where's Joe?


>At 12:23 PM 12/21/01 -0800, thomas schofield wrote:
>>
>>Isn't Schneider's name also on Samsung and Rollei P&S cameras?  Maybe Leica 
>>wants to avoid name association with them, or perhaps Samsung/Rollei have 
>>rights to the name and don't want to be associated with Leica!
>
>Samsung is long gone from the Rollei connection.  Leica simply paid JSK
>enough to avoid having to use the JSK name.  Local pride and all that.
>
>Marc
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
>Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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