[News] AFUA visited Thendic-France | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Apr-2002 15:30 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 629 comments View flat View list |
The French Amiga user group AFUA visited the Thendic-France headquarters and met with Bill Buck and the Coyote Flux guys. Read their report here.
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AFUA visited Thendic-France : Comment 230 of 629 | ANN.lu |
Posted by gz on 25-Apr-2002 17:36 GMT | In reply to Comment 222 (Samface): I'm sorry sam as your metaphor suxx bigtime and can't really be compared seriously to the AI vs MOS extravaganza.
Let me give you another metaphor to make you see why:
If there was a childmolester/murderer caught redhanded by a mob of people who had been terrorized by this individual for years, and the police wouldn't had done anything about him as they had other agendas of more importance to them.
Suddenly cops would get interested as these ppl would have done all the work for them. The cops would come and take the molester away and he would get a 5 year sentence out of which he would be out on parole after doing 3 years. As for the ppl who caught him, they would be put on trial and accused of taking the law on their own hands and some of them would do time for protecting themselves.
Would you testify against these ppl in court, if they had beaten the molester to scare him off their neighbourhood? on who's side would you be? sometimes the law is blind and is not there to help us when we need it even if we had been victims, because not everything that goes wrong in this world can be added to the law.
Not very good metaphor is it?
My point is that you can't take such metaphors of real life horrors and apply them onto the small battle thats going on between two software companies. Of course you can make a point with such a metaphor (which you did) but it won't be a good or practical way to do it. |
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