Ex Red Hatter turned to the dark side?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Chris Adams wrote:

> Once upon a time, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at mindspring.com> said:
> > despite your nonsensical accusations above, i in no way "viciously 
> > attacked" mr. sharp.
> 
> Calling someone a "whore" is a rude and uncalled for attack.  If you
> don't see that, that's your problem.

gawd almighty, are you always so detached from reality?!?!  calling
someone a "whore" in this context is doing nothing more than describing
how they conduct themselves in business.  that is, they will (pardon the
generalization) do or say anything for the right price.  (my apologies
to prostitutes everywhere who do have limits, ok?  wouldn't want to have
mr. adams now accusing me of slandering prostitutes, which i suspect was
where he was heading next.)

it's the same rationale people use when they refer to professional 
placement agencies as "pimps".  you know, they'll sell you, for a price, 
the person who will do what you want.  there's no personal slander 
involved there, it's just a reasonable accurate and colloquial way of
describing how their business works.

> > i simply pointed out what was painfully obvious to anyone, even those
> > who had never met mr. sharp -- that is, that he is clearly willing to
> > say whatever it takes to make a living, even if it involves completely
> > contradicting what he said in his previous business lifetime.
> 
> How do you know what he said in his previous business lifetime?

hmmm ... let's see ... he worked for red hat ... one can probably safely
assume that he didn't make it a habit of slagging open source to
journalists.  see how that works, mr. adams?  it's called "inference".  

> My last post on this topic (and probably on this list - I thought it was
> supposed to be about Fedora Core releases).

yeah, well, there's the occasional digression, in case you hadn't figured 
that out yet.  (see:  pretty much anything involving nvidia. :-)

rday