Am I the only person who, when reading "yours would too if you were in his position", thought, 'Gee, thanks roblimo, I guess I am a sellout!'?
I don't see why being a CEO automatically means you must be dishonest with your customers. Is this some rule of economics that I haven't learned in school yet?
I'm not sure I would call it being dishonest. There's actually rules against that when you're a CEO (though, as we know, Darl takes such rules to heart).
I read it more as a "he's not going to publicly trash his own company" or "watch out for marketing spin anyway." As much as you would want him to say "Yeah, RealPlayer used to suck a lot," that's an unrealistic expectation for a still-current CEO of the company.
This guy is the CEO of a $.78 billion company (look up RNWK on Yahoo finance). I think it's cool he took the time to answer a bunch of questions from anonymous geeks. Being a little sympathetic to his 'spin' isn't selling out, rather it's closer to reasonable politeness.
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began
to suspect "Hungry."
-- a Larson cartoon
Gee thanks (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't see why being a CEO automatically means you must be dishonest with your customers. Is this some rule of economics that I haven't learned in school yet?
Re:Gee thanks (Score:2)
I read it more as a "he's not going to publicly trash his own company" or "watch out for marketing spin anyway." As much as you would want him to say "Yeah, RealPlayer used to suck a lot," that's an unrealistic expectation for a still-current CEO of the company.
Re:Gee thanks (Score:2)