----- Original Message ----- From: "nathanpdaniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 3:29 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Who is Robert Thompson?
> Since he seems to be in EVERY thread... and why should we (not) listen > to what he has to say? Just curious... I have no idea who he is. He says some sensible things, he has some controversial views and he seems to have a mission to push his view of the world onto the flexcoders community at every opportunity. I don't have a problem with anyone putting forward a viewpoint or mentioning some flex related development, but it gets tedious when it's done post after post. A lot of what Robert has said has been mentioned here before so it's not some great insight that we're seeing on some new feature of flex development or software business practices. Robert clearly has a view of the world that is all his own. It's OK to put that forward once, but in post after post aspects of that view are pushed forward. I feel like I'm reading propoganda broadcasts. I don't have an issue with the technologies that Robert champions - many developers here (including me) have used papervision, dabbled with lazlo or have used FDT and many developers here have talked about their use in conjunction with Flex. I have no problem with devlopers that use other technologies - many of us use multiple technologies as a matter of course. Robert is unhappy with some of Adobe's business practices and has declared his intention to look elesewhere away from flex towards other technologies. That's his prerogative, but I don't feel he should use absolutely every opportunity to push his alternative technologies as though he has a mission to move us from the evil flex into the light. I just don't like having one persons views pushed at me post after post. This list is about flex, but lately it's mostly about the world according to RT. Don't get me wrong. RT is entitled to have his views, but I shouldn't have to keep reading about them all of the time.
