Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> In article <ld7xk.25143$rD2.21069@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> * Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>
>> >> > <http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1874753788>
>> >>
>> >> Sydney, 2 September 2008, A new IDC report has shown the competition in
>> >> the Identity and Access Management (IAM) market in Australia and New
>> >> Zealand (ANZ) has intensified over the last 12 months. Oracle has
>> >> established a strong presence in the market, challenging other
>> >> incumbents including IBM, CA, Sun and Novell.
>> >>
>> >> I think you fat-fingered something.
>> >>
>> >> I have no idea what you're getting at with that article.
>> >
>> > Nothing leapt out from it? No clear evidence that Microsoft was behind
>> > that IDC report? Nothing nefarious about it appearing in a Linux
>> > magazine?
>> >
>> > Read deeper. Roy managed to use that as that start of a long spiel
>> > about how Microsoft money is controlling the content of InfoWorld,
>> > ComputerWorld, JavaWorld, LinuxWorld, MacUser, MacWorld, Network World,
>> > and PC World are all on the take from Microsoft. Yet you think *Moshe*
>> > is the loony-tune, and Roy is sane!?
>>
>> Moshe is loony-tune. As for Roy, I must have missed that one.
>>
>> You'd have done better to quote Roy-written text or link to it, rather
>> than make some mysterious allusion that calls your motives into
>> question.
>
> If I'd simply quoted Roy-written text or linked to it, you would not
> have looked, your automatic belief in everything Roy says would have
> kicked in.
Yes. Like a whipped cur that quivers behind his master heals.
>
> By just citing the original article, I was giving you a chance to read
> it, and be puzzled why I would mention since an innocent story as if
> there was something significant. I figured that you would express that
> puzzlement, Roy would see that and jump in, and demonstrate how loony he
> actually is, in a way that even you might see as looney.
He can not see Roy's lips move from the back.
--
"What's wrong, (p)Rick? Were you defending the innocence of Hans "The
Linux Butcher" Reiser, and now that he's about to give up the body
you're embarrassed at being an idiot?"
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