People who are trusted with information and leak it usually are not trusted subsequently and receive no more information. Nothing cagey about it. I'm not going to draw you a diagram. Lee was doing some really disruptive things within the company. However..., if you consider Lee's background and Kaufmann's, you can read all kinds of things into about Leica Kultur, who has it and who hasn't. In the end, "Best Buy" was not the way forward for Leica. Leica = Kaufmann and Kaufmann is protecting his investment. -------------- Original message from "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr@xxxxxxxxx>: -------------- Sorry, William, I don't live in Wetzlar anymore, so I can't really ask a Leica employee. You are acting pretty cagey about this, when a simple explanation might suffice.