Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Downloadable Erwin Puts Book
From: "Rob Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:19:15 +0200
References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020926101930.00b53858@pop.runbox.com> <3.0.2.32.20020926004530.01abae30@roanoke.infi.net>

I totally agree with you Marc, which is pretty much a first. ;-) Apart from
anything else, this pamphlet seems to be little more than a minor rewording
of Erwin's on-line material. There is little new.

- -- Rob

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- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@infi.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 6:45 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Downloadable Erwin Puts Book


> At 11:46 AM 9/26/02 -0400, B. D. Colen wrote:
> >No, but the existence of an obvious conflict of interest unavoidably
raises
> >the question of whether a person has been unduly influenced. And the
> >person's work should be judged in light of the conflict, and the
question.
> >Particularly when the person in question vehemently denied - on this list
> >and his own "private" list, the existence of such a conflict.
>
> BD
>
> What schlocky sort of a journalist are you?  I was trained, back in my
> journalism days, to develop a time line.
>
> IN THE PAST, Erwin has told us that he did not receive money from Leica.
> The last such claim was about a year ago, if my memory is correct.
>
> TODAY, Erwin appears to have been the author of a pamphlet sponsored by
> Leica.   A slew of queries would occur to the non-doctrinaire journalist:
>
> a) Was Erwin paid for this work?
> b) IF he was paid (and I am not certain that he was, having done unpaid
> work for Leica myself), when was this a firm deal?  Before or after his
> last statement that he was independent of Leica?
> c) If he knew of an impending payment, did this render him not
> "independent" of Leica?  Can there be a one-shot payment which does not
> affect independence?
> d) Does drafting a pamphlet make one a heart-and-soul slave of Leica?
> e) Does taking money to draft a descriptive pamphlet necessarily
invalidate
> a lifetime of work?
>
> BD,  I could run down the companies which own the companies for which you
> work.  Are you slaves to these?  Be real, brother!
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@infi.net  FAX:  +276/343-7315
> Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!
>
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