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Article #652Re: SDSC Image Tools and PBM Plus
From: Jef Poskanzer
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 19:48
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 19:48
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dansmith@Autodesk.COM (Daniel Smith):
} I too plowed through Dave Nadeau's posting, and found myself
}really objecting to the tone before I got to the end of it.
Yeah, there were a lot of unfair comparisons and even outright
falsehoods. But you have to understand where Dave is coming from. He
has this huge project with huge government grants, and yet everyone is
saying that one guy with a rickety old Sun 3/50 produced something
that's just as good. A congresscritter with an axe to grind could have
a lot of fun with that come budget-hearing time. So he *has* to dis
pbmplus. It's not personal, it's just business. He's probably a nice
guy in person. Maybe he even understands what the congresscritter
wouldn't: that the one guy and his 3/50 are backed up by the combined
debugging and programming talent of tens of thousands of net people.
There's no way he can honestly compete with that, so he has to use
other methods.
I do wish he'd learn about cross-posting, though.
---
Jef
Jef Poskanzer jef@netcom.com jef@well.sf.ca.us
"Too bad it's backwards." -- Captain Happy
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Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils,comp.graphics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!jef From: jef@netcom.com (Jef Poskanzer) Subject: Re: SDSC Image Tools and PBM Plus Message-ID: <1993Jan9.194828.9483@netcom.com> X-Face: uPIE),q]+zmF49L%(pdE;nX/8$/J22&&&C@_)8BouYx42Y--?*,\]*MIeTY#mCM(x>FyD@+0D-Jm]S_8lxop(Q-$L#~b8!ha;eF[b+GOLyu<]4$">NeVymJ@F#M?1O`ue4,h4`2S^KGjmP%no(d,:<Ur:+f6W8$J:'t9BxH Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer <jef@netcom.com> Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric References: <18329@autodesk.COM> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 19:48:28 GMT Lines: 23