On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Vickram Crishna <[email protected]> wrote:

> Probably not. What a business newspaper needs to hear is something a bit
> stronger, along the lines of:
> "My company (casually mention its ticker acronym and turnover) is a leader
> among those who work exclusively with Open Source licensing of its developed
> applications and services, and we are not afraid of competing head on
> against the companies who use the IIPA to restrict competition. As promoters
> of the use of legal software we see no justification for the government to
> act openly to favour their interests."

When you mention (and, that is never casual) the ticker and the
turnover of a company you speak on behalf of it. Which makes the
process of furnishing a comment uniquely challenging.

I am not surprised that BW did not carry it. I am equally unsurprised
that the 24x7 news media did not deem this decently news-worthy to
provoke a panel discussion. The sheer audacity of the statement should
have made governments sit up and, formulate a statement by reaching
out to interested consortia.


-- 
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog>
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