Let the FUD Fly

I was going to write a post about the completely ignorant and now infamous “Wronghorn” article Scoble posted about last night. Well, looks like I don't have to. Sebastien Lambla did a KILLER job writing an intelligent and hilarious post, complete with a link to Neopoleon's PDC bathroom incident. It reminded me very much of a similar article that came across my inbox about a year ago regarding the .NET Framework. It was filled with exactly the same crap as this one was. I fired off an e-mail to the guys' editor, ripping apart the guys argument point-by-point, and lambasting him for not doing any kind of fact-checking whatsoever. Two weeks later, I had a job writing for CNET Networks. Go figure.

I still say it's only a close second in the FUD department, though. Scott McNealy still takes the cake.

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  • Tony McCune is obviously biased since he (& his firm) are a Java/WebSphere shop and very likely hasn't worked with LongHorn. What I find remarkable is that ZDNet published the article to garner a "media hype frenzy" (notice the feedback threads from his article). Ironically, ZDNet makes it revenues primarily from the MS Windows platform industry. But a free press is important - it allows biases from asses as well.

  • Absolutely agreed, thanks for the link :)



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