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I’m never reading PalmInfocenter again, Ryan. You can’t keep the trolls from engaging in personal attacks, and frankly, I’ve had enough and have better things to do with my time than deal with those wingnuts. I don’t mind dissenting opinions, in fact I love them. I love a good debate. But these people aren’t debating. They’re engaging in personal attacks. They’re trolls, pure and simple.
For those of you that don’t read PIC (and you ain’t missing anything), I’ve been personally attacked quite a bit recently by cowards who won’t use their real names. My crime was saying nice things about PalmOne and PalmSource, which can’t be allowed by this group of sad, bitter people.
However, I do feel compelled to state, for the record, my relationship with PalmOne and with PalmSource. I doubt the bitter will believe me, but for those you that still have open minds…
My relationship with PalmOne is purely that of a happy customer. I don’t work for PalmOne in any way. I don’t even get review units from them, although I’m certainly going to ask when they announce the Life Drive.
My relationship with PalmSource is a little more complicated. I have done some consulting work for them, for which I collected my one-time fee. I have also interviewed to replace Chris Dunphy as their Director of Competitive Analysis, and didn’t get the job. They recently filled that position with someone from Transmeta. I no longer have any financial dealings with PalmSource at all. I am on an invite-only mailing list populated with PalmSource employees and folks that run Palm-oriented websites. There is no financial impact from being on this list.
That’s it. I’m not being paid to shill for either company. In fact, if anything, losing out on the job at PalmSource could have made me bitter and antagonistic towards them.
But I’m better than that. I say what I say about these companies because I believe it. I’m a big fan of Palm OS and I’m a happy PalmOne customer. And anyone who doesn’t like that is entitled to their opinion, but I just don’t have time to listen to them anymore.
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