[free-sklyarov] Thank You All!

[Eric Tully]

Don,

    You are right - it's anyone's guess whether Adobe would have backed
down anyway.

    But no matter whether the EFF *caused* Adobe's retreat or was "mostly
irrelevant", there's still no reason why anyone should be beating them up.
We're all on the same side here, even if we disagree on tactics, as Declan
said. 


- Eric
    





At 10:09 AM 7/24/01 -0500, 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.
>
>Don Wills
>
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