More Shills?

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 21:51:15 CDT 2007


On 10/30/07, Jon Pruente <jdpruente at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/30/07, Oren Beck <orenbeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > After digging into the thread far enough to grasp some coherent feel it only
> > seems worse.
> >
> > It's as if someone were proposing that the arabic numeral set and
> > Add/Subtract/Multiply/Divide calculators made possible by it - are inferior
> > to their sincere insistent proclamation that
> > unicode cuneriform on clay tablets was inherently superior. and then went
> > forth shilling THAT.
> >
> >
> > Oren Beck
> >
> > "Say something enough times and the biggest lies become self convincing
> > truths"
>
> From the reading I did in the comments it's just a couple guys who
> started with an important sounding name, who actually have no
> influence or authority.  I think I'll start a group called the "Center
> for Americans for Disclosure in Programming" and start shilling for
> Open Source.  That might be official sounding enough to get some
> attention, like these chumps. ;)


The problem is, that this is going to be some very effective FUD.


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