[81852] in Cypherpunks
Re: e$: Skins vs. Shirts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Sun Jun 15 12:36:19 1997
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Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 09:02:44 -0700
To: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>, Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: 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
There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws.
Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!"
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