Re: e$: Skins vs. Shirts

[Tim May <tcmay@got.net>]

At 1:26 AM -0700 6/15/97, Tom Weinstein wrote:

>Just to be clear, we didn't give the blackmailer any money.  As Mike
>Homer put it: "We don't bargain with terrorists."
>

Netscape wants money for one of their products. I won't give them money. "I
don't bargain with terrorists."


(What the Danes offered was a straight buiness deal, albeit made weirder
and more frantic by the constraints of time, publicity, and worldwide
attention. Still a business deal, though. When Collabra wanted X dollars to
be acquired by Netscape, was this also "terrorism"? The term "terrorist"
hardly applies in business deals.)

--Tim May

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