Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ [H]omer on Thursday 21 June 2007 10:01 : \____
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>
>>> ZDNET hackette backs down under Apple fan boy threats
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | ZD NET'S Volish correspondent, Mary Jo Foley, has broken under pressure
>>> | of abuse from Apple fan boys who were miffed that she dared to suggest
>>> | that Leopard looked the same as Vista.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40441
>>
>> As I said before, I like Foley, but she got that original article badly
>> wrong. She's doing some serious back peddling in her update, claiming
>> (to paraphrase) "but that's not what I said at all". Unfortunately the
>> hardcopy tells a different story, e.g.:
>>
>> "Dashboard with widgets. Isn?t this like the Vista Sidebar with gadgets?"
>>
>> Good God woman! Mac OS X had both a Dashboard and Widgets before there
>> even *was* a Vista OS.
>>
>> Just because it's an opinion piece, that's no excuse for poor, nae
>> *zero* research. It was a mistake, in fact it was crass stupidity.
>>
>> Her many, many *good* articles more than compensate for this one (albeit
>> big) mistake, however.
>>
>> And no (Ms Foley, or anyone else who's interested) I am *not* a Mac
>> fanboy, as our dear MacTroll friend Oxford will no doubt testify.
>>
>>> The Myth of Fanboys
>>
>> And while we're on the subject of fanboy's ... where are all the Inq.
>> articles about Windows fanboys poisoning social networking sites like
>> Digg and places like IdeaStorm?
>>
>> Funny how whenever a Mac or Linux guy posts a comment he's a "fanboy",
>> but when a rampaging hoard of paid Microsoft shills infest a site like a
>> plague of locusts - no official media comment ... anywhere.
>>
>> So ... who invents the news?
>
> +1.
>
> What bothers me the most is that even those who promote freedom (neither a
> product nor a company) can actually be called "_fan_boys". Since when is
> standing for one's own rights a matter of being a "fan"? Being the most
> prolific commenter in Digg (I think I have a large gap on the second user), I
> get a lot of that "fanboi"-type comments. It's really pointless. FWIW, some of
> those shills (maybe someone from COLA as well) still go through each comment
> of mine and mod it down. I start at +0 at best.
>
Why doesn't she just admit that she got it wrong?
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