Comment mea culpa (Score 1) 148
Ok Ok.....
I guess it must be fairly obvious that what y'all read was a badly muffed attempt at a hose job. If you've ever read "A Modest Proposal" by Swift you'll know what I'm talking about.
Yeah mixing Linux and Unix together and calling them the equivalent of dog-poopie was intentionally inflammatory. But that's not really smart or professonal, or even grown-up. Nor was an airy dismissal of the whole convoluted history of the various forks of Unix in two incorrect sentences (which were supposed to be funny -- oops).
Same with the Microsoft comment (If anybody thought that was seriuous - heaven help us)
However, the grabbing of the erroneous wire service story that ran the word Million instead of the word thousand when mentioning RedHats losses was just plain stupid on my part. I've written straight articles warning people against doing that sort of thing, and subjecting wire service copy to common sense review, or at last waiting until the second rev of the story shows up before jumping in with both feet.
Do me a favor, call off the dogs (or penguins if you prefer) In any case this wasn't Andover's fault it was mine. Yeah, I was trying to stick a needle in everyone's eye, but I've also got an obligation to the facts.
Jack Bryar
(trying to be outrageous does not excuse not being accurate)
I guess it must be fairly obvious that what y'all read was a badly muffed attempt at a hose job. If you've ever read "A Modest Proposal" by Swift you'll know what I'm talking about.
Yeah mixing Linux and Unix together and calling them the equivalent of dog-poopie was intentionally inflammatory. But that's not really smart or professonal, or even grown-up. Nor was an airy dismissal of the whole convoluted history of the various forks of Unix in two incorrect sentences (which were supposed to be funny -- oops).
Same with the Microsoft comment (If anybody thought that was seriuous - heaven help us)
However, the grabbing of the erroneous wire service story that ran the word Million instead of the word thousand when mentioning RedHats losses was just plain stupid on my part. I've written straight articles warning people against doing that sort of thing, and subjecting wire service copy to common sense review, or at last waiting until the second rev of the story shows up before jumping in with both feet.
Do me a favor, call off the dogs (or penguins if you prefer) In any case this wasn't Andover's fault it was mine. Yeah, I was trying to stick a needle in everyone's eye, but I've also got an obligation to the facts.
Jack Bryar
(trying to be outrageous does not excuse not being accurate)
