[ Thanks to Zoki for
this link. ]
“Dear Editor in Chief,
“Over recent days our business has been inundated with unwanted
feedback on a NZ Herald article that at best, was less than
flattering and at worst vulgar and personally threatening to our
innocent team. Sadly it reflects an inability to communicate the
facts clearly and deadline pressures for your freelance journalists
to submit an article.“Your article is factually incorrect with respect to the reason
we declined to replicate Mr McKee’s CDs. We
wrote to him to ’withdraw our quotation and
offer’ citing that
’Software Images is unwilling to be dragged
into any public debate with your organisation or
others’. Also, it was ’a
commercial decision of Software Images, so that our team can retain
focus on our business activities not public
debates.’“Personally I am unwilling to make a decision on behalf of a
client under journalistic pressure…”
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