[sklyarov-chicago] from Adobe

[Steve Stearns]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Peter A. Peterson II wrote:

> Quoting Michael Cannon:
> > Tough.  They brought this on themselves, when they
> > pressured Mueller.  Their stock price is intimately
> > tied to .pdf and Acrobat.
> 
> I acknowledge that. But I think a protest that is focusing on a small
> number of unified goals is better than a group that shouts 5 different
> things that to the uninitiated may seem unrelated. Also, boycotting
> Adobe right now does not help us meet our immediate goals.

Agreed.  Adobe got the ball rolling but at least they've had the good
sense to back off.  Let's give them some credit for that (maybe not much),
and focus our attention on the real issue at hand, a really bad law being
enforce in an even worse way.

---Steve