[comp.os.os2.misc] If insulting everyone else could make OS/2 a success...

bert@helix.nih.gov (Bert Tyler) (05/16/91)

> Of course, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt.  Your post sounds
> like you're another "Unix puke", and if I had half a mind (and my morning
> cup of coffee), I'd nuke you, like I did the last guy who tried to invade.

And you probably would have spent the rest of the day with a smug
expression on your face, oblivious to the embarrassed stares of
your management and co-workers.

Larry, you post messages (like the one I read in the same news-feed with
bitmap-accessing source code) that indicates that you are an intelligent
individual, but it just doesn't make up for posts like the above.  Has
it slipped past you that you posted this message on what is primarily 
a Unix newsfeed?  Just whom is "invading" whom in that situation?

The company you work for (and advertise that fact in your .sig banner)
is pulling out all the stops in a desperate attempt to make the upcoming
OS/2 2.0 acceptable to the business community that has to date spurned
their earlier attempts.  IMHO, OS/2 2.0 has a shot (a long shot, but a shot)
at doing so.  People with your attitude aren't helping matters any.

> Additionally, I have a reputation for being obnoxious...

Adding that statement to your signature may qualify as an apology, but
not as an excuse.


Bert Tyler
bert@helix.nih.gov

feustel@netcom.COM (David Feustel) (05/17/91)

Also Larry, you use invalid return mail addresses. All of my responses
to you bounced and are sitting in dead.letters, each with a different
mail address. Was this deliberate?
-- 
David Feustel, 1930 Curdes Ave, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, (219) 482-9631
EMAIL: feustel@netcom.com  or feustel@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu

feustel@netcom.COM (David Feustel) (05/17/91)

I someone pointed out some internet facts of life to me. Please
disregard the previous message.

-- 
David Feustel, 1930 Curdes Ave, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, (219) 482-9631
EMAIL: feustel@netcom.com  or feustel@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu

larrys@watson.ibm.com (05/17/91)

(Sigh) Okay...I guess my reply to Doug's posting was harsh as well.
Sometimes trying to justify one's actions with another similar action
makes things worse.

So, I would like to publicly apologize to Doug, Bert, and the original
poster's name, and anyone else who feels that I overstepped my bounds.
I will think before posting in the future.

Cheers,
Larry Salomon, Jr. (aka 'Q')            LARRYS@YKTVMV.BITNET
OS/2 Applications and Tools             larrys@ibmman.watson.ibm.com
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center         larrys@eng.clemson.edu
Yorktown Heights, NY

Disclaimer:  The statements and/or opinions stated above are strictly my
own and do not reflect the views of my employer.