Tales from the scene #5: How not to criticize this blog

Your reviewer got some emails and some flak*

(* flak: Soldiers of Fortune, reader replies)

Every now and then, there would be some feeble-minded person who would just say, this blog is full of hearsay, or not accurate.

Here's some suggestion for those who want to criticize this blog:

1) Be specific. There are over 50 articles on this blog, and if it's one article where the facts are inaccurate, you can point it out:

- There were several corrections, spelling-mistake fixes, date-error fixes, factual inaccuracies corrected for the TurboPower article.

[Can someone inform person who is saying it is inaccurate that factual inaccuracies were fixed?]

- There were also corrections made for other articles as well.

- Corrections will be made, and scheduled.

2) There is right of reply. You are most welcome to slam this blog, and for this blog to publish facts defending the articles itself.

3) This blog is not interested in name-calling, mud-raking, personal attacks, or insults. Every time there is "intelligent discussion" about problems and issue with Delphi, it degenerates into mud-slinging, insults and personal attacks.

This blog focuses on facts, articles to debunk these people...

If the tool is soooo good, everyone should be making thousands of dollars, there would be excellent libraries, professional people, the kind you meet in freemason lodges or the Borcon conventions, thousands of people would attend them...

Instead, it degenerated into loss, poor-quality libraries, "Delphi forums" would be best called "dens of thieves" and nothing but cheating and stealing is common practice.

If a student who comes out from University comes and become a Delphi developer, only to learn his masters download pirated material, use all pirated software, the student will ask himself what future he has with his poor salary and poor work?

If the masters only depend on stealing and cheating, what will become of them?

I don't know the answer, but for DelphiHater, it seems to be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God...

Many of those people who developed in the 1980's, 1990s are now in their 40's, 50's and 60's... What are you going to do when you "get there?" Tell everyone you were part of the "scene" - ROR, TMG, FCN, DND, FLT, had "slots" and "rights"?

If you have no sin, cast the first stone, there is really no need to uphold the law (Thou shalth not steal, Thou shalth not bear false witness...)

What will you tell the priest when you go to confession? or when will you get "right" with your life?

4) Morality aside, your reviewer welcomes your comments.

To come:
Your reviewer is digging up financial information about Developer Express (surprising information), supposed Delphi-usage in Skype (Delphi-ICE (the protocol Skype uses), Global Sound licensing), Julian Zierch WpTools review (and suggested corrections to Julian's website), Smells like Team Spirit Nevrona, Delphi Economics Part 2, More people exposed, Delphi 2009, Update 5&6 review, SVCom review.

:)