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Experience, with a global news organisation and a trillion dollar corporation

• barbazoo 4y ago
  > Without a comment, even a “no comment”, it was impossible to tell what Microsoft knew or planned to do. And that was too much risk for the media organisation’s lawyers, because Microsoft have 1700 lawyers and unlimited financial firepower. > And… it worked. Silence worked. The lawyers at the media organisation, understandably but annoyingly, lost their nerve. Because you fill silence with your own most vivid fears. Maybe Microsoft had a secret, second contract signed in blood at midnight! I get the feeling that this is conjecture on the author's part here and only one side of the story.