RE: IPIX against Panorama_Tools

["Mitchell P. Warner" <indepth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Count me in!


At 03:12 PM 4/8/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Helmut Dersch wrote:
>>
>> I have closed the Panorama Tools site
>> temporarily because of threats from IPIX corporation.
>
>This represents a new low for IPIX.  I move we initiate the Helmut Dersch
>Legal Defense Fund.  I'm willing to contribute US$100 toward this good
>cause.  Not kidding, either.  If he has to hire a lawyer to answer this
>absurd charge, it's gonna cost a few pounds.  (Hey William Donnelson, know
>any good barristers ?)  Obviously, IPIX has the resources for million-dollar
>lawsuits against Infinite Pictures and others.  Their strategy obviously is
>to win through intimidation.  We in the industry had better stand up against
>this pressure wherever possible, or its US NEXT.  Helmut, who has given us
>so much for absolutely free, deserves our full support.
>
>=Josh
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>  Joshua D. Eskin, PhD, President
>  Panoptic Vision, Inc, Boulder Colorado
>  303-417-9800    www.panopticvision.com
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>
>
>
At Your Service, 
                         Mitch Warner

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