Dave Winer on Enderle: carpetbagger quotemill of the worst sort

Posted Jun 19, 2003 18:42 UTC (Thu) by kmself (guest, #11565)
Parent article: Linux Is Not Ready For the Enterprise (Opinion) (TechWeb)

Winer's not exactly penguinista rabble.

Scripting News

I finally got so bored with the news I actually had something to say about Rob Enderle. If you want to get on the record about him, send me an email and I'll try to oblige.
Michael Williams: "That guy has always struck me as all hat and no cattle. Drives me nuts to see him quoted as an 'expert.' I'd be shocked if he's ever installed anything more than Windows on a laptop or written any code other than pseudo in an e-mail."
John Robb: "The guy is a carpetbagger quotemill of the worst sort. Nobody ever called him on it until today."
Joe Rotello: "Why don't we just replace him with a large switch marked OFF, and be done with it."

...and...

Scripting News

Yesterday one of my favorite columnists, Cydney Gillis of the Eastside Journal ran a column about the departure of Linda Stone from Microsoft, using quotes from Rob Enderle of Giga Group, someone I think of as a quote mill, happy to give you a line about anything, including things he knows nothing about. Gillis seemed to be different, not just a fill of space, she seemed to have sources at Microsoft, and had the guts to write stories that weren't as cleansed and vacuous as most of the crap written by the Big's. Enderle's presence is a warning sign. I see a quote from him I get the message. The reporter is out of ideas and has decided to cut corners.

So I guess if Enderle's quoting Enderle, the bottom of the barrel's scraping the bottom of the barrel...