On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 17:45 +0100, Mark Harrison (Groups) wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 11:16 -0500, James Walker wrote: > > I signed the petition. > > I didn't, not because I think it's a bad idea, but because I don't > believe it will have any impact. Microsoft doesn't count "customer > demand" on the basis of petitions from its competitors. It counts > customer demand from the very good, professional, knowledgeable set of > corporate account managers who go round regularly listening to the kinds > of things that their large customers are asking for, and generally > respond.
Except that they can say whatever they like about that to suit themselves. The point of an independent public petition is just that. Its independent and public. Whether or not this has any effect remains to be seen but certainly not trying will have no effect. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
