Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!intercon!news From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: NFS on the Mac Message-ID: <268A351B.3EEC@intercon.com> Date: 28 Jun 90 16:49:30 GMT References: <6692@umd5.umd.edu> <855@mdavcr.UUCP> <268138A0.6F2B@intercon.com> <19724.2681dd74@merrimack.edu> <26867CE4.183F@intercon.com> <19780.2688cc11@merrimack.edu> Sender: usenet@intercon.com (USENET The Magnificent) Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Herndon, VA Lines: 59 In article <19780.2688cc11@merrimack.edu>, rand@merrimack.edu writes: > "Disclaimer: I work for the company who's product I'm discussing so > take this with a grain of salt." are nice. There are a lot of naive > people out there who don't/can't always notice the connection. Whoa, let's do a reality check here. My company's products were not under discussion until you accused me of misrepresenting myself. We were discussing MacNFS, and I was challenging what I perceived to be a claim that supporting a PD product was equivalent to supporting a commercial product. Neither my employer nor our product even entered into it. The closest I can come to a disclaimer that would have been relevant to the discussion at hand would have been "Disclaimer: I produce commercial software for a living", but I would have thought that was pretty obvious, from the company name in my signature, if nothing else. > Well I guess a lot of people are asking questions. I just did a quick grep > of my news database and found oodles of posts. And I expire posts pretty > quickly. If we discount the recent burst of questions about the product brought on by yur posting, most of what I post to the net falls into the following categories (roughly in descending order by volume): soc.motss mainly friendly gossip, certainly not very work-related comp.lang.postscript Answering PostScript questions, occasionally arguing with people about Adobe's policies comp.sys.mac.* Answering prgramming questions and specific queries about Macintosh TCP/IP. Most such replies are in email, not posted. Occasional arguments with "ivory tower" types, or people who think the Apple is the Source Of All Evil :-)... > I guess what I'm trying to say is that I see your posts all over the place > and you're usually discussing your product. For the casual observer you look > suspiciously overzealous. There are two factors here: When people ask, I answer. Usually this is in email, but if the question seems of widespread interest and hasn't been answered recently, I'll post. I generally wait to see if someone else will answer before I do so, simply out of politeness. If I'm overzealous about anything, it's probably in my impatience with GNU-style arguments that "software should be free" and "Apple is evil and stupid." I'm a capitalist--what can I say :-)? I think you're overreacting. I also think that we should take this to email if you'd like to continue the conversation, so as not to further irritate other readers. -- Amanda Walker Engineer, Graphic Artist & Capitalist At Large InterCon Systems Corporation -- The customer isn't always right, but they do get an unnatural amount of slack.