On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Zane Gilmore wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:27, Philip Charles wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Zane Gilmore wrote:
> >
> > > The only speaker that was really negative about OSS was... guess ;-/
> > > But even he wouldn't all out slag it off because then he would have lost
> > > credibility.
> > >
> > > ComputerWorld has more or less accused us of wimping out and not really
> > > "hooking into" the M$ guy.
> > > http://computerworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/4EFB6A2E16B720DCCC256D7800828E4A!opendocument
> > > I don't think that would have achieved much. It would have probably just
> > > alienated the suits that we want to like us. :-)
> >
> > ComputerWorld lost a story. The standard advice in these situations is to
> > ignore such a person. If you do this then your adversary has no reason to
> > reply and is forced to stay silent.
> >
>
> I'm sorry Phil, I don't understand. Do you think we should have leapt in
> boots and all or try to quietly subvert him?
>
Sorry, too terse. Papers like conflict, makes a good story. It is a far
better strategy to ignore the adversary so they have not choice but be
silent, or otherwise they are seen to be fanatics. The only negative is
that the journalists are frustrated.
Phil.
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