Re: Fw: interesting reply

[John Bridleman <jbridleman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Adam Tauno Williams (awilliam@whitemice.org) wrote:
> Agree.  But what it is that yanks my chain is that alot of these guys are journalists who are supposed to be reporting news (i.e. facts, truth, etc..) not uninformed and clearly unresearched opinion.  Like the recent ZDnet article which states that Linus says that Mac OS X "sucks",  when the quote is from a discusion of the Mach micro-kernel architecture.   Apparently you can get anything "printed" these days,  isn't it the job of editors to slap up their writers on occasion?  The entire approach by "news" organizations these days drives me batty.

These people are not journalists. They take press releases and rework them so they sound like it's news. Or, they will take discussions from the kernel list and make it sound like they interviewed Linus or anyone else for that matter.

> And you usually can't make any progress when your in a discussion with someone who presumes omniscience or didn't read the context of a statement.

And that will put me that much farther ahead in the game. Let these people try to sell a MS solution. My customers will be much happier in the long run.

BTW, my favorite MS commercial these days is the shot of the server room where the guy says that the servers haven't been visited in "days". Quite an achievement, wouldn't you say?
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John Bridleman / jbridleman@voyager.net