Re: OmniMark Rant (was Re: [FWP] A fun bit of obfuscation)

[Tushar Samant <D@i-works.com>]

On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, David H. Adler wrote:
>And this, I think is the worst part of their marketing: They bury what
>they're good at in a morass of perl-bashing. [...]

A graphically inclined cow orker of mine (much props) observed,
after seeing the deliberate bad design of Bill's battle-cry page
<http://www.microsoft.com/freedomtoinnovate/default.htm>, that
marketing geniuses have gradually formed a vague theory that being
an underdog with a grassroots image is kind of a Good Thing. That's
about the best they can do when hit so unexpectedly on the head with
Linux and related phenomena. More can be said about this, but the
basic point is that very likely a few of these brainstormers have
made their way into Omnimark. As usual they don't get it. The near-
legendary status of, say, "csh considered harmful" can't be repli-
cated by shouting "Perl sucks".

Maybe these geniuses expected everyone to be wowed by a spunky new
kid standing up to the big bully.

Oh well...

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Tushar Samant
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