> See, I think it's important to call out companies when they do > something > that goes against the interests of their users. I think it is > valid to avoid companies that have an eregreus history of doing things > that > harm the interests of users similar to yourself.
Agreed. When some company does something nasty, or releases a bad product, point it out. Let the fanboy followers know about the shortcomings. Take those opinions, and extrapolate them to the extent that you feel problems in Product A are indicative of problems in some other product that you're considering. The products might be separate, but they're from the same company, and often there is some degree of corporate culture that goes into a product. It's normal, but times change, and different products within a single company get developed by different developers at different points in their careers, with different constraints, and the extrapolation and prejudice are often taken further than the point of maximized benefit. Past experiences and personal memories don't obsolete themselves as fast as products do, so people too frequently allow their past experiences to cloud their present opinions. It's all about achieving a balance... If I've been burned by some bad thing happening in some product, do I hate the product? Do I hate the whole company? Do I hate the whole country that it came from? I've seen people having each of those reactions... If some company too egregiously does things that harm the interests of users, pretty soon they'll have no users. Unless they make up for it in some other way, or unless there's no clearly identifiable better alternative. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
