On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 14:11 -0400, Nathan Hamiel wrote: > > > Yes, it does. When dealing with blanket statements (which we have > been) you have to concede that breadth has to take some sort of > precedence. It's like asking a person who has never left Alaska if it > is cold outside.
This smells and seems like a peeing contest. I think its mostly underestimating others your are not vary familiar with, such as myself. How many years did you live in the California Bay Area? Any idea how I ended up back in Jacksonville or why? Or why I have remained despite offers from all over the place. Not to long ago was discussing work in China. I like to travel for vacation and other things, not for work. I have avoided traveling for work, I am not a fan of that at all. Though that might change in the future, and hopefully I will remain in the area. > If that person from Alaska is also a world traveler and has spent > time in different parts of the world then their opinion would be > different given their experiences. Again you have no idea as to my experiences or exposure, just as I have no idea as to yours. I would not make such assumptions. Keep in mind I have been elected to a board of trustees for an international non profit entity before. Which I resigned from due to lack of progress in a timely manner. Which most all of that has still yet to be done years later. I was elected to that board by an international voting body. Despite even putting in my manifesto at the time that I did not want people to vote for me, in a nutshell :) You might want to Google my name and see how many results you get, see some of the work I have done and places I have been in over the years. Make sure to put quotes around my name, heck I will provide a link to help out. I get 288k results, without quotes even more and mostly still me http://www.google.com/search?q="william+l+thomson+jr"; > Assuming they are not budget constrained and/or understaffed. > Few > companies have enough staff to have specialists dedicated to a > single > platform. > > > This is absolutely not true. Where is this coming from? Oh just small business I spoke with at Linux World when manning the Gentoo booth a few times. Only small businesses attended Linux World. Just like only hobbyist run and are involved with Gentoo. :) > If you are talking about mom and pop shops then, I could possibly see > this. My experience with SMBs is in a different spectrum. I reside in a few worlds. > But no enterprise works this way. Again that is way to broad of a statement to make. Even given your experience, you have not be involved with every enterprise out there. To a certain extent you would not live here if you did. > My whole argument this whole time is about enterprise development. Best thing I can suggest is go take a look at the source code thats out there. Grep kernel sources, or others and see what you find. No opinions there, will just let facts speak for themselves. You might be surprised at the company names you see, and I would not be surprised to see VI/VIM or Emacs lines at the bottom of those source files :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
