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

[Roy Bixler]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 06:42:56PM -0700, Mitch Stone wrote:
> I picked on Bombay and his stupid and cruel act in a column a year or 
> so ago, and I think I'm ready to try it again, and maybe even more 
> pointedly this time. What really starches my shorts about this guy is 
> the way he exploits insecurities. For reasons that escape me, people 
> write to him believing that he's actually there to help, when in 
> reality his MO is and always has been to make people feel stupid for 
> asking. If his put-downs were amusing, that would be at least some 
> saving grace, but they are mainly nasty and unfunny.

His condescending attitude fits in well with the Microsoft mantra: "we
know what's best for the users and the industry.  If you disagree,
then you must be mistaken.  You do not understand technology or us."

> Syndication is a major achievement, especially in technology journalism 
> these days. You'd think that only the best would make it, but you'd be 
> wrong. The fact that this guy's tripe is run in hundreds of newspapers 
> is, frankly, galling.

In general, the so-called technology pundits in the mainstream
newspapers are clueless, biased or both.  Anyone who's serious about
technology should be skeptical of them.

R.