[NCLUG] RFC: draft of press release -- comments from another side

[Quent]

Then there's that highly professional rant published by Sun:

	http://www.sun.com/dot-com/realitycheck/headsup010205.html


On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:08:15AM -0700, John L. Bass wrote:
> Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com> writes:
> > While in theory I agree with this sentiment, in practice I think it may not
> > be as effective for the target audience.  It seems like the MS press-releases
> > along similar lines combatting Linux tend to be any less negative.  Since
> > these are certainly carefully crafted by a whole army of people hired to do
> > such things, I think we could use them as a metric of how natagive is TOO
> > negative...
> 
> With the popular press slamming MS for this type of negative campaign, it
> probably would be a mistake to ratchet up the Linux side to behave at the
> same (or any) negative level ... lest they take bad press to. See eWeek 2/5/01
> front cover, bottom of page, article by Peter Galli "Microsoft grapples with
> Linux threat".
> 
> John
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