Posted by: Jeremy Hogan
on August 14, 2004 11:51 AM
Grab the shovel and dig I guess.
If I'm to understand his rebuttal, it's okay to call people idiots, so long as they are using "free" software.
PJ from Groklaw (started well before her new position) and who's career is "tied to the future of Linux" is a propagandist, but working for MS is okay and not propraganda.
It's really baffling, he uses spyware as a solid example of freeware, but not as an example of what happens with a poorly designed and secured OS and browser?
And I don't know how he expects people "are missing the hidden costs" of the free software, they are successully using.
Poor Amazon, I bet they'll hate giving back all the money they've saved on Linux and Intel, once they figure out that... wait... what?
The sad thing is, they don't pay him to be right, factual, reasonable or even sane. They pay him to get this stuff pollenated across the web in quotes, rebuttals and flames.
Thank goodness calling someone an idiot doesn't make it true, it just exposes his own lack of class and dulled sense of irony.
Actually, he doesn't call "someone" an idiot, he grossly generalizes a group of individuals that are too busy proving him wrong to bother telling him he's wrong.
He's an embarrassment to his own cause, but hey "Never interrupt an enemy while they are making a mistake" so more power to him.
Every time he opens his mouth, it's an excuse to correct him, and to clarify the facts.
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Re:Trying to make nice
Posted by: Jeremy Hogan on August 14, 2004 11:51 AMIf I'm to understand his rebuttal, it's okay to call people idiots, so long as they are using "free" software.
PJ from Groklaw (started well before her new position) and who's career is "tied to the future of Linux" is a propagandist, but working for MS is okay and not propraganda.
It's really baffling, he uses spyware as a solid example of freeware, but not as an example of what happens with a poorly designed and secured OS and browser?
And I don't know how he expects people "are missing the hidden costs" of the free software, they are successully using.
Poor Amazon, I bet they'll hate giving back all the money they've saved on Linux and Intel, once they figure out that... wait... what?
The sad thing is, they don't pay him to be right, factual, reasonable or even sane. They pay him to get this stuff pollenated across the web in quotes, rebuttals and flames.
Thank goodness calling someone an idiot doesn't make it true, it just exposes his own lack of class and dulled sense of irony.
Actually, he doesn't call "someone" an idiot, he grossly generalizes a group of individuals that are too busy proving him wrong to bother telling him he's wrong.
He's an embarrassment to his own cause, but hey "Never interrupt an enemy while they are making a mistake" so more power to him.
Every time he opens his mouth, it's an excuse to correct him, and to clarify the facts.
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