From: riel@nl.linux.org
Date: Sat Feb 01 2003 - 20:56:25 MST
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> John K Clark wrote:
>
> >>Unfortunately "they" includes both ones customers and ones competitors.
> >
> > Then fight back, if I say nasty things about you then say nasty things about
> > me, pretty soon people will learn to disregard what competitors say about
> > each other, if they haven't already.
>
> If we are all busy practicing such a thing then all of our
> reputations will sink immediately and deservedly.
Just look at political campaign advertisements in the US ...
> We really have better things to do.
... and look at how said advertisements make us wonder
whether any of the political candidates do have anything
useful to do, or whether the voter can only choose the
lesser of some evils.
Definately not something commercial companies can afford,
since their clients have hundreds of uses for the contents
of their wallets. If the music industry pisses off the
clients, people will simply spend their money on unrelated
things, like going out or chocolate ;)
If only we could vote for beer instead of politicians...
cheers,
Rik
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