On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:48:26 -0500, DFS wrote:
> Tim Smith wrote:
>> Mary Lou Jepsen is one of the main people behind the OLPC (see
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Jepsen> for details). She
>> posted to Slashdot to refute the FUD, which Roy is spreading in
>> several places, that olpcnews.com is an Intel shill site:
>>
>> <http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=416106&cid=22017038>
>>
>> Roy's evidence? Someone who write at olpcnews.com is a director of a
>> division of IESC (<http://www.iesc.org/>) that has done some projects
>> with Intel (and, among others, the Peace Corp, Africare, and Helen
>> Keller international).
>
>
> Nice.
>
> But don't count on the utter public destruction of Roy's idiocy being nearly
> enough to make him change. James Gosling (of Sun and Java fame) told me
> himself in an email that Rex Ballard was a liar that he [Gosling] had never
> heard of, yet even after I posted that devastating refutation of his lies,
> Rex didn't stop claiming his work was the basis for Java.
>
> The truth isn't nearly enough to keep nutcases like Roy Homer Rex from
> spewing their warped lies and misinterpretations of reality.
Rex Ballard actually claims that his work is the basis for Java?
I thought that was some kind of a joke.
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