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Subject: Vs: [Leica] Re: Rangefinder Whiteout Problem - The Answer from Leica
From: "Raimo Korhonen" <raimo.m.korhonen@uusikaupunki.fi>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:47:42 +0100

Thank you, Jim! A very good assessment of Erwin´s situation.
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho

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Lähettäjä: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Päivä: 11. maaliskuuta 2002 19:16
Aihe: [Leica] Re: Rangefinder Whiteout Problem - The Answer from Leica


>Anybody out there ever hear of NDS? Non Disclosure Agreement. I sign them 
>all of the time with Silicon Valley companies. Companies that I am not a 
>part of, receiving no pay from, but want/need access to their technology. 
>Or they want to talk to me about my/our technology. We both sign them.
>
>The NDS states that I cannot divulge any company private information to 
>anyone else.
>
>It is a very simple concept.
>
>All of the information that you all have right now about the M7 is BECAUSE 
>Erwin was able to, as an independent and TRUSTED tester, write his reports 
>ahead of time so that the moment that Leica said "go," he could publish his 
>reports. We all got good information immediately.
>
>Without Erwin, we all would have only the Leica AG brochures and Leica AG 
>web site information. Basically sales literature. Not in depth information 
>that we all so desperately want.
>
>What's the old saying, "don't look a gift horse in the mouth."
>
>Bitch and moan too much about Erwin's ability to spent countless hours 
>testing, writing, looking through archives, talking to designers, etc, etc, 
>etc... and he will simply stop reporting to us. He will simply publish his 
>findings, as he does now, without giving us the skinny first. We can read 
>it a few months later in some language other than English.
>
>We are lucky that Erwin simply takes the abuse and continues to do he 
>life's mission and passion. And continues to keep us informed, as best he 
>can, with his findings.
>
>I personally believe that Erwin should simply cease reading the LUG, cease 
>posting to the LUG, post only to his own newsletter and web site, and of 
>corse, the publications that regularly carry his writings.
>
>And I would limit the newsletter subscriptions to those who are "not" cry 
>babys about the fact that he has a better relationship with Leica AG than 
>they have. And that he has signed a ND and must live by the rules or be cut 
>off. Which, of course, would substantially reduce our knowledge about Leica 
>products.
>
>Get a grip!
>
>Jim
>
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