Agreed. Any discussions or insinuations concerning disapproval or approval of general product designs or lack thereof that I wish to post will go to advocacy. I still stand by the rights of everyone on this list to write negative comments re: the outcome of specific technical questions so long as those comments do not move into general company bashing. That is after all in the vein of free [list] speech.
I have never engaged in what I would call Msft bashing on this or any other list and will continue to keep my record clean. Thanks > -----Original Message----- > From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Beauchemin, Bob > Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 10:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Disrespect (pls move to Advocacy) > > > Please take this thread to the advocacy list (there is one)... As > the original poster wrote, "this is a technical forum". Please > also post any insinuations or commentary concerning S$, M$, or > [you hope your product goes here]$ to advocacy in future as well. > > Thank you. > > "We are, after all, professionals". ;-) (Hunter S Thompson) > > Bob Beauchemin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Reggie Burnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 8:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Disrespect > > > I apologize to the other members of the list that have been > exposed to this > thread and tell you that I intend this to be my last mailing on > this thread. > > > > > > There is not a person there to be hurt. > > > > Really? Microsoft is an advanced artificial intelligence, devoid of any > > humans at all? This is real news! > > You're smarter than that! Disapproval at company wide decisions does not > have to mean disrespect at individuals inside the company. > > > > > > M$ is not a sign of disrespect, it is a sign of disapproval. > > > > No, disapproval is writing opinion pieces in papers, and having > > discussions > > with friends, and posting to your web log. Disrespect is taking > > your beef to > > a technical mailing list with kiddy "M$" and "MicroSloth" and > every other > > variation that I've seen over the years. > > You are right that those are forms of disapproval but there are tons of > emails that flow through this and other MS-related groups/lists > that express > disapproval, either at product pricing or design or other issues. > > > > > > Forgive me for being so naive, but I thought this forum and > > others like it > > > was a place where thoughts, ideas, and questions could be exchanged. I > > > guess I was wrong. > > > > Yes, absolutely you're wrong. This is a place where people go > to get their > > technical problems answered, and engage in technical discussion. > > Nowhere in > > the list charter does it say "social commentary". > > I completely agree that this is a technical forum and, as such, > needs to be > focused on answering people problems. Just yesterday I posted a question > asking why IE 5.01 is required for the .Net runtime to install. > No answers. > I am working on an application right now that I would love to > develop in C# > but may not be able to because some of my clients may not be able > to install > IE 5.01 Sp2 in order to run the .Net runtime. Now if there is a valid > technical reason for this, I would like to know. If this is the famous > marketing engine working to help promote distribution of later versions of > IE, that is arbitrary and means I can't use this cool new system > for purely > marketing reasons. If this list is so tightly strung that I > can't grumble a > tiny bit when these types of issues come up, this this list > should be moved > to to microsoft.public list server and you guys should be put on payroll. > > > Reggie > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or > subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or > subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
