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Originally Posted by davidrothman
That's one reason why I'm running out of time to reply to the rather repetitious arguments of Ben, who apparently is busy accumulating brownie points with potential consulting clients.
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Actually, I have a very nice day job that doesn't involve ebooks at all. My sole motivation in rebutting your outrageous claims is simply because they're, y'know, not true and all that.
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Originally Posted by davidrothman
Meanwhile I do understand that the IDPF is a group to which he has emotional attachments, that his motives are not just financial; but it would help if he stepped back and acknowleged the complexities here.
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I happily acknowledge the complexities, sir. It's you whose arguments seem to boil down to "ETI bad! IDPF bad! Adobe bad! OpenReader good!"
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Originally Posted by davidrothman
Jon Noring and I have identified the main causes of the IDPF's dysfunctionality in the standards area. The question is whether the group will have the integrity and discipline to act.
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Your identification is sorely lacking, given that your facts are wrong.
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Originally Posted by davidrothman
The IDPF could make valuable contributions to e-bookdom if it focused on being a trade organization, not a standards groups where just one company presides over both of the crucial standards committee. Move standards to a place with a greater depth and diversity of talent.
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Oh, for pete's sake! The working groups at IDPF decide things by
voting. Do you even know what a chair of a working group
does? He's a glorified secretary!
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Originally Posted by davidrothman
BEN: Do email me the text of the supposedly censored message, and I'll add it to the original thread.
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Unfortunately, that text went into the TeleRead machine and was subsequently lost to the ether, it seems.
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Originally Posted by davidrothman
I will say that you don't appreciate the complexities of WordPress-related spam filtering or you'd understand why some legit comments don't get through. Other blogs have the same problem that the TeleRead one does.
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It's good to know that, twice in one message, you manage to accuse me of being a simpleton. I'll add to my list of commendations.
I'm quite aware of the complexities of handling WordPress spam, given that I've got over a dozen WordPress-based blogs running on my server. Funny thing, never had a problem with it. I guess I must be so very simple in my approach to things that I cut right through the spam as if it were a Gordian knot, huh?
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Originally Posted by davidrothman
As for Jon, your divide-and-conquer tactics are pretty evident even though you've lapsed into some anti-Noring canards. Quite objectively Jon will tell you that the IDPF does not represent e-bookdom right now--based if nothing else on the composition of the board.
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Hey! Keen! I'm nefarious, now, too, nothing but a money-grubbing (looking for consulting clients), stupid (unable to grasp the complexities) and evil (dividing and conquering) person. I have been elevated to the status of Adobe and ETI. I feel so blessed.
David, if you're wondering why nobody listens to you, you might consider the tone you set by starting off your posts with random insults at people's integrity and intelligence.
If Jon so reviles the IDPF, then why is he still showing up to the meetings? If the IDPF is so useless, then why doesn't he simply concentrate on OpenReader?
Heck, why are you guys even waiting to take it to OASIS? Sally forth! Don't let me stop you. My Jedi mind tricks are not that strong.