Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!husc6!bu-cs!bzs From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: Survey for NeWS Terminal Emulation Message-ID: <30494@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 1 May 89 04:33:15 GMT References: <8904260139.AA24538@scarlett.sun.com> <30471@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <4526@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci. Lines: 41 In-reply-to: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu's message of 1 May 89 03:58:46 GMT From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) >\begin{soapbox} > >I have plenty of respect for Barry Shein, and he does know what he's >talking about, and I often listen to what he says, and what other >knowledgeable folks have to say. But I then make up my own mind. > >Appeals to authority (e.g. "Kirkegaard says...") are a basic form of >logical fallacy and carry no weight other than emotional. You could >look at an appeal to authority as sort of an inverse of an ad hominem >argument - neither is valid and for very similar reasons. The ideas >themselves still have to stand on their own merit. Someone may turn >out to be right, but don't believe what they said just because they >said it. > >Please don't try to infer from this what my own feelings are >concerning the Window Wars - you won't be able to! I just don't like >appeals to authority as a logical technique. > >\end{soapbox} Yeah, but ya gotta listen to *someone* eventually, even if it's yourself. I am quite sure, however, the world would be a better place if they did everything my way, at least for me... What I'd really like to hear is what is going through the players at Sun's minds, this whole thing is getting pretty confusing to us mere customers. Maybe someone can coax Warren Teitelman out onto the networks, even if just to correct my spelling of his name. C'mon, it's time for a little brass (in all senses of the word.) (Kirkegaard???) -- -Barry Shein, Software Tool & Die There's nothing more terrifying to hardware vendors than satisfied customers.