Re: Nikon Busted For Industrial Espionage!

On Sun, 11 May 2008 14:54:03 -0400, "Rita Berkowitz" <ritaberk2008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
: Mark Sieving wrote:
: 
: >>>> Nikon was caught stealing lens design [from Canon]
: >>>>
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1021&thread=2784
: >>
: >>> No such story can be found with a Google News search...
: >>
: >> Did you look?
: >
: > Your link points to a forum discussion about whether manufacturers'
: > warranties should cover damage from accidents.
: 
: What accidents?  The lens fell apart due to a poor choice of materials
and 
: hardware.  This is something everyone expects from Canon not Nikon.

Let's try to recapitulate: A Nikon lens falls apart, which to Rita
indicates
that Nikon must have "stolen" its design from Canon, and this constitutes
"industrial espionage". Is that really the premise underlying Rita's
original
article? If it is, and if this doesn't teach us to stop reading her nutty
threads, we all ought to have our heads examined.

Bob