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On 24 Jul, Don Wills wrote:
> Hello Declan,
> 
> At 10:51 AM -0400 7/24/01, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>>Without EFF's sober negotiators sitting down with Adobe yesterday,
>>Adobe would not have backed down.
> 
> How in the world can you make that statement?  Are you omniscient?
> 
> My guess (which is no better than yours) is that Adobe would have 
> backed down even if EFF did not meet with them.  The negative PR is 
> what Adobe wanted to avoid - and EFF was mostly irrelevant to that.

I was a strong supporter of the boycott and the protests, but I think
that you are overstating the case.  The EFF was not irrelevant, and in
fact they played a pivotal role, as did many of the protestors. 
Moreover, alot of the press that we got was exactly because we were
"under the EFF umbrella" as it were. That is clearly good for the
 movement, not bad.  Please don't dis the  EFF so badly, because we
 need them as partners. One day you may be glad that they are there.

Regards,
proclus
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