Re: Self-proclaimed consumer advocate wants Fed takeover of Windows

[Sujal Shah <sujal@worldnet.att.net>]

Declan,

	You're missing Mitch's point.  It isn't calling him a consumer advocate
that he (and others) are complaining about.  It's more related to the
fact that you used the phrase "self-proclaimed" in a "derisive manner"
when it just didn't make sense to use it.

	By definition, a consumer advocate is someone who works for consumer
issues.  If I said I was a "software and systems developer" and I have
the resume to back that claim up, what about that would require the
clarification "self-proclaimed?"  Because it is unnecessary, it clearly
comes across as derisive.

	You call anyone who finds the current situation as it pertains to
Microsoft untenable a Microsoft hater.  Is it that we hate Microsoft, or
that we simply disagree with you?

	As a "self-proclaimed" reporter or journalist, you leave much to be
desired.  Your reporting never acknowledges opposing positions without
deriding them as silly or just plain wrong.  Your posts on this mailing
list carry a similar tone of arrogant presumption.

	Out of curiousity, Declan, how old are you and what experience do you
have with technology and economics issues?  Do you have a resume online
somewhere?

Sujal

Declan McCullagh wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Mitch Stone wrote:
> > Just for the record: consumer advocates are neither elected nor
> > appointed, so to use the descriptor "self-proclaimed" in a derisive
> > manner is simply disingenuous. Ugh.
> 
> Your pal Martin doesn't need you to defend him. To reporters yesterday, he
> handed out copies of a two-page bio with a headline screaming in uppercase
> and underlined characters: NATION'S FIRST "CONSUMER ADVOCATE IN
> CYBERSPACE."
> 
> Since I'm not sure that what he's doing is going to help consumers, I just
> called him by his own adopted title.
> 
> -Declan

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