RE: Vengeance Against Adobe

[Sandy Sandfort]

Declan McCullagh wrote:

> But the Feds won't back down as
> readily as Adobe, I wager. They
> don't have to worry about what
> programmers think, they don't
> have to worry about what Wall
> Street thinks (at least DOJ
> doesn't), they don't have to
> worry about slipping revenue
> in a soft economy and users
> turning to non-Adobe tools.
> In short, they have a different
> incentive structure...

True, it may be different, but it is an incentive structure (or, more
accurately, a disincentive structure).  For example, I don't thing the
Federal Baby Incinerators really want to create another Wen Ho Lee or
Richard Jewel fiasco.  They already have enough egg on their face.


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