Comments on: Sun Responds — Gently — to Novell’s OpenOffice.org FUD

By: Ren in FL

Ren in FL — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:59:47 +0000

@Roy,
Nothing in that “status” entry says anything about being anything other than a doctoral STUDENT.

By: Ren in FL

Ren in FL — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:57:48 +0000

@Thomas Holbrook et al -

I also visit AND comment on MS-biased sites as well – doesn’t mean that I put any credence in what they have to say either.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:27:56 +0000

I try to separate the two using words and references. Is there a more effective of achieving this separation (cues)?

By: Ari T.

Ari T. — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:18:21 +0000

homburg-hansen:

“It only draws madmen and mean little boys who like to rip the wings from flies”

I’m sorry to say, but this is not too far from the impression I get of you based on your comments.

Roy:

Although I think Boycott Novell is a valuable source of information, I’d like facts, opinions and assumptions to be separated more clearly here. Not doing so just helps your opponents in their efforts to discredit you.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:50:10 +0000

It's also an ad hominem attack that ignores the facts.

By: Thomas Holbrook II

Thomas Holbrook II — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:15:59 +0000

@Ren in FL: The fact that you not only visit this site, but commented as well only shows that you are lending credibility to Mr. Schestowtz. If what he said had no credence, then why waste time here?

By: Ren in FL

Ren in FL — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:53:20 +0000

When does Roy graduate from school so he’ll have to get a real job and have less time coming up with conspiracy theories that are stretched so thin that they’d break if they were rubber bands?

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:21:38 +0000

Thanks a lot. It’s fixed now.

By: ms

ms — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:19:12 +0000

Ugh, fix these article errors…

“that would ‘be’ Excel”

“…a similar fashion because of the need ‘tor’ quality control”

By: sims

sims — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:40:29 +0000

That’s cool. I just wrote rant html style tags around the above comment so people would know the contents were volatile.

Cheers and good luck next year!

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:44:50 +0000

sims,

Thanks, I was unable to restore any tags (markup) because I do not see any.

By: sims

sims — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:33:38 +0000

BTW, my rant tags were omitted above.

By: sims

sims — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:30:00 +0000

You guys suck.

Roy, first of all, if you want your site to hold any credibility, report facts not opinions. Then let the readers put the pieces to the puzzle and discuss their opinions in the comments.

We all know MS’s OOXML is garbage and MS’s attempt to pollute standards in order to grab more of the market via vendor lock-in and ghey upgrades so we can give them more money to feed the greed demons.

You don’t need to convince us. Just report the facts – the nice little details that don’t make it to the front page.

The ghey MS fans will come here and spill vomit on the comments section, and that’s too bad. There’s nothing you can do about it. Arguing with them only makes it worse. Just let them be ghey and sell their internal organs to MS. I don’t really give a what.

Have a nice day and a Happy New Year!

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:21:26 +0000

It only draws madmen and mean little boys..

…And hecklers like yourself, who can’t help smearing because a site like this one attracts over 3 million hits per months and you don’t like what people see.

FWIW, some CEOs read this site too. Just because they don’t comment doesn’t mean they don’t exist. But they comment privately.

By: homburg-hansen

homburg-hansen — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:16:29 +0000

Nobody with any reputation within the FOSS community wants his name associated with this website. Not even its former founder, Shane Coyle.

It only draws madmen and mean little boys who like to rip the wings from flies… Just look at all the viciousness in Roy’s blog posts and ask yourself whether it has come out of nowhere or whether it’s always been in him, waiting a topic to earth itself in.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:54:38 +0000

Thomas; one good thing for the FOSS community has come off boycottnovell.com

BN was cited by Spiegel, Forbes, InformationWeek, IDG (e.g. ComputerWorld), OpenOffice.org front page, etc.

Don’t try to abolish the site without substantial argument or evidence.

By: homburg-hansen

homburg-hansen — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:47:00 +0000

Thomas; one good thing for the FOSS community has come off boycottnovell.com: It has become very easy to discern the sane people from the tinfoil-hatters.

By: homburg-hansen

homburg-hansen — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:44:51 +0000

[All this only goes to show that the very idiosyncratic understanding of 'conspiracy' you've outlined above is just ridiculous.]

By: Thomas Holbrook II

Thomas Holbrook II — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:44:40 +0000

@homburg-hansen: It’s called having an opinion. If I wanted to, I could argue that you have the intent to harm somebody based on your actions (i.e. claiming that somebody wanted to hurt a company and employees), but then again, that would be silly, now wouldn’t it? I believe the old blog of helios (before bandwidth issues caused him to change over to Blogger) had a comment from an anonymous Novell employee that stated something along these lines: The head of Linus Torvalds being delivered to Gates on a silver platter.

By: homburg-hansen

homburg-hansen — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:38:25 +0000

Certainly it was? Did he consult anyone on his decision to launch an all-out attack against Novell? Isn’t his intent to hurt a company and its employees highly malicious?