Doug
>>My point was just that because you don't see some people publicly telling MS what they think doesn't mean that they aren't doing their part.<<
Nobody has said that anybody else is not trying... but I am absolutely certain that private dealings with MS is a failed strategy and rather than hearing about it all again I'd rather hear about whatever new strategy is to be tried since the current has failed. Michael's letter seems like a very likely next step to me.
IMHO the argument about "doing one's part" is surely similar to somebody who pays "$1 per day" to help starving children, refusing to sign a petition calling for more government assistance for those same children because one is already "doing one's bit". The goal seems submerged in that scenario.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1