[free-sklyarov] Thank You All!

[Declan McCullagh]

You conveniently snipped the other part of my message, which said both the 
protesters and EFF needed each other. Perhaps "would not" was a bit strong, 
but the dynamic would have been substantially different if there had not 
been a cordial meeting taking place at the same time.

-Declan


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