[Am-info] Dr. Bombay: Everything but MS is irrelevant

[Erick Andrews]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:56:22 -0700, T. Guilbert wrote:

>In a message dated 2003 September 12 (Friday), timestamp 04:07 PM, 
>   on the topic Re: [Am-info] Dr. Bombay:  Everything but MS is
>irrelevant,
>   "Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@lightlink.com> wrote:
>
>"|>     "consider buying a Pocket PC. It doesn't matter which brand,
>"|>     because they all have pretty much the same software from
>"|>     Microsoft . . . Just don't get a Palm-powered device . . ..
>"|>     They use a different operating system and software . . ."
>
>"|The following quote from his site should tell us all what type of
>"|jerk  this guy is.
>
>By all means, send him an email and set him straight.  But the most
>effective criticisms are the ones that are focused.  He will never
>publish your response if you call him a general jerk -- he probably
>will not publish direct criticisms, anyway -- but he might respond --
>even in print -- to a reasoned argument that using an operating system
>that does not have to fend off three virus attacks per week by
>constant patching is a strategy less advantageous to the user than
>using an operating system that has more robust security. 

I think that the best criticisms are the ones that are focused, honourable,
and sincere.

However, you need to keep in mind that you're dealing with someone who
is un-engaged, on his turf, and may not care a 'Texas hoot', no matter whether 
he has compunctions about his "public" profile or not.

Think about this:  "Dr. Bombay":  could that be less a pseudonym than 
George Sand had with Freddie Chopin?

-- 
Erick Andrews