Re: Rudy de Haas' Defamation
If Mr. de Haas had actually listened to the responses he got, instead of taking them as further evidence of a collective delusion, he might have avoided libeling thousands of honest, hardworking IT professionals. Instead, he chose to drape himself in the mantel of self-righteousness and proceed in his own delusion. One of my comments was about the inapplicability of synthetic loop benchmarks (such as SETI) in the measurement of mainframe performance. He even printed the letter, although he didn't seem to have read it. Cheryl Watson has just sent me a draft (review) copy of her next Tuning Letter and purely by coincidence it contains an item about the zSeries and its caches. Fidelity Investments and IBM Dallas have worked an issue with a home-grown data compression algorithm in which deliberately dispersing instructions and code improved CPU performance by a factor of around 30. Cheryl's stuff is available at http://www.watsonwalker.com He didn't believe me when I told him that synthetic loops were discredited over three decades ago - perhaps he'll believe someone of Cheryl's status. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 +49 173 6242039
Re: Rudy de Haas' Defamation
On Mon, 27 May 2002 19:33:01 -0400, Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought quite a while before deciding to write this note. I finally decided that it was worth the trouble and risk of being ignored. Rudy de Haas' (aka Paul Murphy) latest and final article in his series on Linux/390 was really too much to have to deal with in what should be a reputable publication such as LinuxWorld. Inferring that the subscribers of the Linux-390 mailing list are the same as gullible members of a religious cult is crossing the line of responsible journalism into territory that I don't even know how to categorize. In his zeal to criticize IBM and the Linux/390 platform, he seems to be unaware of one possible explanation for all the things he can't understand about the platform and its supporters: they might be right and he might be wrong. In his last column he makes the comment The list members know what's going on, most of them have daily access to Linux on the mainframe and can see its costs and limitations far more clearly than outsiders can. Which is true. In his mind, though, that just makes them deluded cult members, as opposed to intelligent professionals who know a good thing when they see it. If Mr. de Haas had actually listened to the responses he got, instead of taking them as further evidence of a collective delusion, he might have avoided libeling thousands of honest, hardworking IT professionals. Instead, he chose to drape himself in the mantel of self-righteousness and proceed in his own delusion. To use a British turn of phrase, bad show, both on his part, and yours as well. Mark Post Maybe some people here should author a rebuttal and see if LinuxWorld would publish it. john
Re: Rudy de Haas' Defamation
I was contacted by the editor of that article today, and told that he would be willing to publish any reasonable rebuttal. I told him I was kind of busy, but I'd consider it. So, if anyone wants to feed me verbiage, I'll at least collect it. Maybe we'll put something reasonable together that I can forward to them. Mark Post -Original Message- From: John Alvord [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 5:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rudy de Haas' Defamation On Mon, 27 May 2002 19:33:01 -0400, Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought quite a while before deciding to write this note. I finally decided that it was worth the trouble and risk of being ignored. Rudy de Haas' (aka Paul Murphy) latest and final article in his series on Linux/390 was really too much to have to deal with in what should be a reputable publication such as LinuxWorld. Inferring that the subscribers of the Linux-390 mailing list are the same as gullible members of a religious cult is crossing the line of responsible journalism into territory that I don't even know how to categorize. In his zeal to criticize IBM and the Linux/390 platform, he seems to be unaware of one possible explanation for all the things he can't understand about the platform and its supporters: they might be right and he might be wrong. In his last column he makes the comment The list members know what's going on, most of them have daily access to Linux on the mainframe and can see its costs and limitations far more clearly than outsiders can. Which is true. In his mind, though, that just makes them deluded cult members, as opposed to intelligent professionals who know a good thing when they see it. If Mr. de Haas had actually listened to the responses he got, instead of taking them as further evidence of a collective delusion, he might have avoided libeling thousands of honest, hardworking IT professionals. Instead, he chose to drape himself in the mantel of self-righteousness and proceed in his own delusion. To use a British turn of phrase, bad show, both on his part, and yours as well. Mark Post Maybe some people here should author a rebuttal and see if LinuxWorld would publish it. john
