Re: Netscape announces position against GAK

[Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>]

On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, Ginger Warbis wrote:

> >On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, James A. Donald wrote:
> >
> >> At 04:27 AM 12/9/95 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote:
> >> >Credit where credit is due.
> >> >
> >> >I for one am satisfied--and even pleased--with the Netscape position on GAK.
> >> 
> >> Well I for one, am serious unsatisfied, but it is not so bad as
> >> to merit a campaign against Netscape.
> >
> >I think it's a good start.  I would like to see how much effort after 
> >this really pans out.  Doesn't take much to put out a policy statement.  
> >Takes a lot to follow it through.
> >
> 
> Greetings all. May I also point out that the power of self government is at
> least as effective when rewarding good behavior as when punishing bad. You
> guys are the experts in this particular political niche, but from the
> viewpoint of a more or less innocent stander-by, the statement sounded to me
> like "OK, we went, we listened, they were full of shit, the line is HERE."
> and I'm quite satisfied.

I haven't seen 'good behavior' worth much notice yet.  Like I said, it 
takes about 10 minutes to come up with a written policy.  Netscape may 
have done more than that, but who's to say?

I'll be impressed when I see a sustained record of activism on the issue.
Till then they are slimy corporate types.  Which, IMHO, is fine so long 
as they don't claim to be anything else.

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