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- From: david@dynamix.com (David L Jarvis)
- Subject: Re: Xenix considered harmful (was Re: SCO support - a success story)
- Organization: SOFTWARE / DYNAMIX
- Message-ID: <9209091746.AA16946@dynamix.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 17:46:58 EDT
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- > >
- > >:Your point being? Or do you feel that I'm unqualified to participate
- > >:in this discussion, because I'm still in high school?
- > >
- > >Hire the teenagers while they still know all the answers! When I
- > >graduated from high school, I knew it all. Four years of college
- > >taught me how little I really know (it took me a lot longer than
- > >that to learn a little humility :-).
- >
- > Let's not be so hard on Marc. I certainly disagree with a lot of
- > what he has to say, and he certainly could tone down the hubris
- > a bit, but he seems like a bright kid who probably does have a
- > lot to offer here.
-
- I don't necessarily think anyone is being hard on poor Marc (in the case of
- Bill I'm *sure* it was more of a heckle than a serious insult).
- In my case it's more a lack of respect for Marc caused by his obvious
- lack of experience.
- I don't mean any insult to Marc by this, as I have said in an
- earlier post I do have respect
- and appreciation for what he's accomplished so early in life,
- and I'm sure he knows quite a bit about SCO Unix.
- Does he know *everything*? No. But it sure sounds like he *thinks* he does!
- Does he know Xenix? I don't think so, I don't think he's worked with it
- much.
- The main problem I have with Marc is that it
- seems he's completely ignoring the fact that he just plain doesn't have the
- experience to back up his arguments.
- [ I've spent that past 12 years of my life doing this stuff,
- 6 of that building my own software engineering firm.
- I've done a lot of *nix systems and I think I have a pretty
- good handle on business computing and how *nix fits in to the
- typical business in this area. I do take offense to some
- high-school kid telling me how my team should be taking
- care of my clients. I freely & frequently admit that I don't
- know all there is and never will. I like to learn, those of
- you that I've spoken to know that, but I'm no moron either!!!
- I keep up on the current issues of the industry, and I like
- to think I make properly informed decisions. For somebody
- who's not even entered the business computing world (full-time
- that is) to come along and tell me everything I've based my
- decisions on is bullshit, well ...]
- That, and the fact that he has on several occasions taken the tone of
- voice that a grade school teacher would use on her students :-)
- Had Marc presented his views in a different
- manner he surely would have been met with more courtesy and respect
- (including myself in our private exchange). I agree that he probably does
- have a lot to offer this group, but I doubt anyone would pay much attention
- unless he uses more tact in his approach, and, like Bill suggests above,
- learns a little humility.
-
- > As those of us over 40 know, age and experience doesn't necessarily
- > mean you know anything, either. And, conversely, just because
- > someone is young doesn't mean they can't know something.
-
- Two *VERY* true statements ...
-
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