Re: Apple, IBM and PCs (Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it)

[Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com>]

Exegete wrote:

> Ed Eastman wrote:
>
> > Although I have been avoiding this thread as it is innane, I must 
> > admit I inadvertantly read this section and feel compelled to speak 
> > about these two gentlemen.
> >
> > Having dealt with both Roy and Bill publicly and privately, they are 
> > both correct about each other to a point.  Both are genuinly honest 
> > and caring people and enjoy being right.
> >
> > Roy is quick to point out a folley and is a bulldog debater, while 
> > Bill frequently states opinions as absolulte facts using words like 
> > never and always.  See the diametric there?
> >
> > If Roy were a bit less argumentative and Bill was a bit less absolute, 
> > where would this discussion be?
> >
> > :)
>
> Me? Argumentative??  Nahhhh!  ;-)
>
> The thread is, of course, inane. Anyone who get so exercised over 
> someone stating their opinion deserves to get some of their hot air let 
> out.
>
> Bill, as he has said, is touchy - too touchy, about MS and the PC. He's 
> even attacked me for DEFENDING the PC, because he's so touchy he read 
> into what I said things that I didn't say!
>
> When someone tries to pass themselves off as "authorities" on a subject, 
> and don't have their facts straight, 

OH, that grammar REALLY stinks!

Roy

then yes, I'll pop up and give a
> correction. In my experience, such people usually go ballistic because 
> their self worth is on the line. Humble people, however, when in error, 
> will accept the correction, and go on.
>
> When I'm wrong - and Ed, you know I have been, no, I won't like it, but 
> I'll accept the correction and go on. NOT because I'm humble (sometimes 
> I can be a really arrogant so and so) but because, as you stated above, 
> I like to be right, and if I'm wrong, I'll change, so I can be right! ;-)
>
> If someone had done to me what I did to Bill, I'd adjust to the 
> corrected facts, and if I thought my opinion was still valid, I'd use 
> the corrected facts to still make my case, or just drop the subject and 
> move on (not that that happens all that often ;-)
>
> As to my honesty - I've been thinking really hard, and trying to 
> remember, and I think, now, that you are right - that extra Transwarp is 
> yours. Do you want it back?
>
> Roy
>
>
>
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