IP: Re: Adobe, Electronic Frontier Foundation Call for Release of Russian Programm

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>From: "R. v. Head" <4whp@home.com>
>To: <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>Subject: Re: Adobe, Electronic Frontier Foundation Call for Release 
>of  Russian Programm
>Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:33:57 -0400
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>
>Adobe is still close to the pocket-protector set. If the Bad Guy in this
>situation had been GE or Ford or another Old-Economy dinosaur (you know, the
>kind of company that occasionally makes a profit), I suspect that they'd not
>have been as amenable to moral suasion.
>
>Unless the "Get Sklyarov!" decision was made at the stratospheric levels of
>Adobe, I expect to see at least one executive fall on his sword over this
>affair, which ranks right up there with New Coke when it comes to
>bone-headed stunts.



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