Integrity and "bias" [was: Munki Business - Color Business]
Integrity and "bias" [was: Munki Business - Color Business]
- Subject: Integrity and "bias" [was: Munki Business - Color Business]
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:45:23 -0800
- Thread-topic: Integrity and "bias" [was: Munki Business - Color Business]
In a message dated 12/1/08 1:11 PM, Scott Martin wrote:
> I think there is a good number of people on this list that have a
> tremendous amount of integrity and aspire to be as unbiased and fair
> as they can be.
I don't see why bias should not be fine so far as it's openly declared. As
long as the facts are honestly checked, verifiable and reasonably complete,
I personally don't care that a person holds an admitted bias. Honesty is
important exactly because bias is just about inevitable.
If, for argument's sake, I've preferred Canon DSLRs instead of Nikons so
far, why shouldn't I say so? The questions is: would I be honest enough to
acknowledge that a Nikon or Fuji or Sony, etc., has come along that
surpasses the qualities of what has been to date my favorite brand?
It's the ability to make dispassionate judgments and change one's mind
accordingly that I admire most, not a foolish "neutrality" that has little
to offer besides its own impossibly "splendid isolation". Every committed
professional has not only a right, but a duty to have an opinion -- and we
all form opinions, once enough facts are known.
> Beta testers/NDA holders aren't hearing much of anything from the new
> XRite. What does the future of the color management business hold and
> how do these products compliment the bigger picture? If XRite were to
> make the Munki usable with their other products (PMP, MP, CP, etc) it
> would have a significant impact on the comparison Armand has asked
> about.
I am starting to form a suspicion that the Munki may be the "way of the
future" -- that XRite's drawn-out lack of significant activity on the
professional side of their work (ProfileMaker, Monaco Profiler, etc.) may
herald a gradual abandonment of their professional customer base in pursuit
of the golden goose of a wider mass market -- which, if true, would make it
necessary for some other (probably small) company to step in and fill the
demand that is still out there for high-end CM tools, however comparatively
"small" it may be.
Marco Ugolini
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