> The statement about herding is as controversial as writing that the sun
> rises in the east and sets in the west. Everybody does it. It is a good
> business practice. Why do you insist that it has to be hush hush?

And why do you insist that I've said things that I never said? I don't, and
have not, said that it has to be hush-hush. What I have said is simply that
this kind of language is not used in an unbiased review. An objective
reviewer would NEVER say, "Microsoft has to herd more PC users into the
latest version of Windows." He would instead say, "Microsoft clearly has a
need to convert more PC users to the latest version of Windows" or something
like that.

And, once again, this is OK. He doesn't have to be objective. The reader
just has to be clever enough to discern the ax he's grinding from the
language he's using.

> Claiming that a review is biased because it is not uniformly 
> positive is suspicious.

Anyone who made even a token attempt to understand what I wrote will know
that this is not even close to anything I said.

> So what you object to is thinking and analysis?

FOR THE LAST TIME, I object to NOTHING in the article. I object to your
characterization of it as an objective review.


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