RE: You'll never get fired for recommending IBM - sorry - Microsoft

["Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () ranum com>]

MHawkins () TULLIB COM wrote:
[...] you don't care one hoot about my opinions apart from declaring
> analogies invalid due to their not proof of anything. Something I already
> know thanks.

Not at all!! Your opinions are extremely important to me!! I was
just wrestling with the conflicting goals of not repeating myself
and beating a dead horse versus the off chance that you were
a sensitive guy and would misinterpret my response as not
treating your opinions in accordance with their importance. I
didn't mean to hurt your feelings, and I am very sorry if you
felt dismissed or downplayed.

> I use one analogy and the rest of my opinion is ignored.

Of course it wasn't! Thousands of people (including me!)
read it. I just didn't _respond_ to _that_ _part_.  It's OK. We
didn't ignore you.

> Funny, that seems to be what happened to the last bunch of people who tried
> using the word monoculture.

We didn't ignore them, either!! They got their 15 minutes of
fame!! More like they got a few weeks of fame. Dan Geer is
going to be giving conference keynote speeches for at least
a year based on the strength of the paper, his firing, and the
attention it got him. I think that's great! Perhaps we'd have
paid more overt attention to your posting if it had gotten
you fired, too. ;)

And I really don't think people _are_ ignoring "monoculture"
arguments. Our own FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (embodied in
the guise of the National Science Foundation) just awarded a
$750,000 grant to CMU and University of New Mexico to
study "monocultures" and diversity in computing.

So don't worry - there's still lots of traction in that particular
hype-meme.

mjr. 

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