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> Roy Schestowitz stated in post 16583694.btV25eIC5X@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 7/5/11
> 11:06 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).
>
> In the quotes, above, you very specifically say the media presents a bias,
> including the BBC.
About media, yes. But I don't call individuals that, or very rarely do.
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~~ Best of wishes
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