Re: maclife.de
Re: maclife.de
- Subject: Re: maclife.de
- From: Uli Zappe <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 12:23:01 +0200
Am 03.09.2008 um 03:59 schrieb Mark Segal:
Uli Zappe's statement from this afternoon:
"Looking at Adobe apps, I have my doubts about the smartness of
their engineers - "
To me, that's a smear.
So if someone is presented to you as an intellectual authority so
strong that his take on a topic overrides your own research results by
default, whereas you consider the actual products this person has
created to be of sub-par quality in several respects, and therefore
express your doubt that he's really the authority you are told to
believe he is, that's a smear?
That sounds strange to me, but maybe that's a cultural or language
kind of issue, or maybe I got carried away at that point in a way that
I shouldn't have. The reason for my reaction was twofold, in any case.
First, I reacted to an "authority" type argument by Andrew, as I
consider this type of argument irrational and therefore strongly
dislike it. And second, I strongly dislike the behavior of Adobe as a
company, which from my POV has largely taken over the former role of
Microsoft as the behemoth that tends to suffocate progress, albeit in
a more defined area. It depends on your concept of "smartness" whether
you think that a "smart" person can possibly work in such a company;
in a narrow sense of purely technical "smartness", that's most
probably the case. But I would not accept such a person as an
authority, in particular, I wouldn't accept such a person as an
authority on the topic of proprietary vs. standardized technology,
which is what this discussion was partly about.
"smart engineers" was Andrew's words that I just took up. Probably I
should have used my own words instead, simply writing that I would not
acknowledge someone working at Adobe as an authority on this topic.
Bye
Uli
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