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> Roy Schestowitz stated in post 1894066.WaBTJ5EOot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 7/5/11
> 12:19 AM:
>
>>>>>> About software patents, media, etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.muktware.com/news/02/2011/1636
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hope you like it... :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> In the interview you say:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Biased" is a word people use to describe one whose
>>>>> convictions are strong and vocal. ... People who call you
>>>>> "biased" to discredit a claim are probably not fence sitters,
>>>>> i.e. these are people whom you may never have been able to
>>>>> convince in the first place. The use of the word is a shrewd
>>>>> attempt to discourage fence sitters from assessing the
>>>>> opposing point of view. To be labeled "bias" may sometimes
>>>>> mean that you are effective at what you do.
>>>>>
>>>>> So your own "bias" is not, in your view, something you see as bad. But of
>>>>> others and their biases, you say:
>>>>>
>>>>> When the media puts business before information, we become
>>>>> susceptible to biased priorities, which is also why we
>>>>> continue to have all sorts of disinformation outside the
>>>>> field of computing.
>>>>> ...
>>>>> There are many different approaches to selling bias (e.g. PR,
>>>>> lobbying) and also to providing alleged information (e.g.
>>>>> analyst reports, endorsements).
>>>>> ...
>>>>> Needless to add, a few years ago many former Microsoft UK
>>>>> executives joined the BBC, which whether they intend to or
>>>>> not, will likely result in bias (tinted glasses vision).
>>>>>
>>>>> So when people point out your bias they are making shred attempts to
>>>>> prevent folks from looking at both sides... but then you call others
>>>>> biased... doing the exact thing you imply is wrong. Your biases are
>>>>> fine... other's who disagree are not. You are showing a meta-bias. :)
>>>>
>>>> Everyone has a bias. It's called an opinion.
>>>
>>> So why imply yours are fine but others' are not?
>>
>> Where did I imply that?
>
> When people claim you are biased, they do so because of a "shrewd attempt to
> discourage fence sitters from assessing the opposing point of view", but
> when when people disagree with you, you then call them biased - which,
> presumably, is not an example of you using such a "shrewd attempt". Or is
> it?
I don't call people "biased". I routinely call particular people "Microsoft boosters", which
is what they are (they probably would not deny it, either).
- --
~~ Best of wishes
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