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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