[free-sklyarov] Re: URGENT: factioning...

Jay Sulzberger jays at panix.com
Fri Jul 20 22:37:34 PDT 2001


On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Stanton McCandlish wrote:

> At 3:07 PM -0700 on 7/20/01, Neale Pickett wrote:
>
> > picketing Adobe might be a bad
> > move, seeing as how they're at least going through the motions of doing
> > what we asked them to.
>
> Exactly.  It could really backfire, because the p.r. damage of the
> protests is a large part of what they are looking to avoid.  If you
> protest them anyway, they have much less of an incentive to yield on
> anything.  And a second protest will not get much, if any, press.
> This is a one-shot deal.  It'll only be news the first time it
> happens. That time should really count. --
>
>
> --
> Stanton McCandlish      mech at eff.org       http://www.eff.org/~mech

Please forgive the directness of my statements.

This is a simple tactical error.  So simple and so well understood by so
many, that I ask:

Why does the EFF persist in the error?

oo--JS.





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