From: djw@pdcorp.com (Dan Weinstein)
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 95 23:41:26 PST
To: twcook@cts.com
Subject: Re: Netscape speaks with a forked tongue:
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On Fri, 8 Dec 1995 23:03:48 +0000, twcook@cts.com wrote:

>> 
>> Again, you seem fixated on making Clark's opinions equivelent to the
>> position of Netscape Communications Corp, this is not a reasonable
>> assumption.
>
>  Given Clark's position, I believe it is a reasonable assumption.  
>Unless of course you hold that the Corp. as a legal entity could have 
>a seperate position. In that case then WHO speaks for the 
>corporation?  Some lower level PR person?  I don't think so...<s>. 

My point is that anyone at any level can make two different types of
statements, those for themselves and those for the company.  If Jim
Clark makes a statement as the President of Netscape, then he is
speaking for Netscape.  If he makes a statement as Jim Clark, then he
is speaking for Jim Clark.  It is possible to not believe in something
ethically, yet see a financial advantage in supporting it.  Their is a
distinction that must be made, though admitedly the line does become
fuzzy when a senior person makes a statement, this is because he is
often the one driving the policy.


Dan Weinstein
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"I understand by 'freedom of Spirit' something quite definite -
the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say
No.        
           Friedrich Nietzsche