Re: [Leica] Kodak Focus now management hubris -- drifting back on topic re M6TTL rangefinder upgrade

[Seth Rosner <sethrosner@direcway.com>]

Clive wrote:


> SUN and Apple have both successfully put competitors that attempted to
horn
> in on their markets out of business -- both using questionable tactics. It
> is only the success of Microsoft that stopped them from being accused as
> monopolists.

Microsoft was indeed accused of being a monopoly - by the United States
Department of Justice and, I think I recall, by the Attorneys-general of
several states. Thus far, the Company appears to have been able to agree to
a settlement that in truth continues its near-monopoly.

> To get back on topic, for anyone who has read this far -- Leica Northvale
> has told me that they do expect to get parts to upgrade the M6 TTL from
> Germany -- but not until mid-late November. Get on the waiting list.
>
Several weeks ago I left a classic M6 with Ernst Hartmann at Leica Northvale
for the viewfinder upgrade. Ernst called me to let me know that parts were
backordered, something he was not aware of when I left the camera.

Seth               LaK 9

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