Posted by: Charles Tryon
on August 17, 2003 09:44 PM
Yes, and that's why SCO and the couple of people in the media who are actually supporting them are drawing on this analogy. SCO thinks (or, is acting like it thinks) it can win this fight. The American media loves to portray fights between big, lumbering corporations and little scrappy entrepreneurs, and they love it even more when, against all odds, they win. That's why people are constantly using this analogy when describing the struggle between Linux and Big, Bad Microsoft.
The point here is that we don't want the "little guy" to win in this case. A better analogy would be a cheap-suited charlatan rolling into town, trying to steal our daughters away, or hoodwinking us out of the profits from the gold mine that was just discovered running under Main Street. They are thieves and hoodlums -- lying, cheating and bullying. There are plenty of stories about these types being run out of town, or worse. We just have to plant these analogies into people's minds, instead of David & Goliath.
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Re:Just remember.......
Posted by: Charles Tryon on August 17, 2003 09:44 PMThe point here is that we don't want the "little guy" to win in this case. A better analogy would be a cheap-suited charlatan rolling into town, trying to steal our daughters away, or hoodwinking us out of the profits from the gold mine that was just discovered running under Main Street. They are thieves and hoodlums -- lying, cheating and bullying. There are plenty of stories about these types being run out of town, or worse. We just have to plant these analogies into people's minds, instead of David & Goliath.
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