Ex Red Hatter turned to the dark side?

[Sean Estabrooks]

On Thu, 27 May 2004 12:41:03 -0400
Jeremy Brown <jeremy at cadre5.com> wrote:

> Hmm...but the only people listening on this list are Fedora users.  
> Chris Sharp told his story outside Redmond, which is why you heard it.  
> If he'd expressed his "opinions" on "windows-list at microsoft.com" (or 
> wherever, you get the point) then we wouldn't be having this 
> discussion.  By contrast, the only people who will ever hear your 
> rebuttle right now are Fedora users.
> 
> I just saw your response to Travis as well.  I don't think anyone's 
> disputing that alterting the list about issues like this and having a 
> little discussion are good things.  But a thread like this has huge 
> potential to erupt into a "you're momma's so fat" kind of flamewar, 
> which just clutters this list and distracts from users who have much 
> more legitimate (and much less sensational) questions to ask.  If these 
> users can't find answers, many will go elsewhere to more sympathetic 
> ears, be it another distribution or another OS entirely.
> 
> If you're really concerned that Fedora's appearance is being damaged by 
> this guy, maybe the Fedora community should have an "official" PR 
> response?  Personally, I don't give much weight to Mr. Sharp.  There's 
> plenty of real world proof that open source solutions work well, and can 
> even be beneficial for small software businesses, and Sharp's 
> credibility is undermined by the fact that he works for Microsoft now.  
> Only staunch Microsoft supporters (who wouldn't have chosen open source 
> anyway) will really fall into this trap.
 
Jeremy,

Not looking for a flame war.   All I was commenting on was the assertion
that the original post itself was somehow inappropriate.

Cheers,
Sean

P.S.   Your Mamma... ;o)