[MacDV] Re: Mac OS X Panther

[Gerhard Kuhn]

On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 03:09  AM, Charles Martin wrote:

> Had you not cut out the context, I was **quoting** the G5 product 
> manager at APPLE.
>
> It's not speculation like what Kunga does. It's FACT. As in DIRECT 
> QUOTE.
>
>
I don't believe that an unattributed quote can pass the definition of a 
direct quote  "somebody, somewhere, sometime, someplace ".  To quote 
you have to identify who you are quoting so the reader can judge 
whether this is a source whose opinion is legitimate or gossip.

In Kunga's case  websites were quoted so the reader was able to judge 
the believability of the source  for themselves for all I knew you were 
quoting the National Enquirer.

I am not interested in getting into an argument, just wanted to point 
out the hypocrisy in being critical of one poster and then being guilty 
of the same sin over a six week period.


Gerhard Kuhn
suspice at hay.net