Well, it's very easy to blame the copy editor, especially an un-named one
that can't defend herself.
Seems awfully convenient, too, given that there is really no point in using
SA for the purpose which Logan claims (and which the copy editor supposedly
trimmed out of the article).   When you stop to think about it, what
conceivable purpose would be rationally served by comparing an out-of-date
open source product with several current commercial packages for the purpose
of showing the tremendous growth in the industry in the intervening time?
Even for that very strange purpose, Logan's work would clearly be
pointlessly comparing apples with oranges.  Any discrepancy between current
commercial packages and an obsolete open source package might be either (1)
because of the time difference and change in state-of-the-art or (2) open
source versus commercial.  Even accepting his explanation, his work product
seems fatally flawed.

Personally, I think that Logan's explanation for his poor journalistic
effort is just as weak as his initial work product after whatever effect his
copy editor may have had on it.

/s/ John Parken

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> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 10:32 PM
> To: Dan Wilder; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Logan Harbaugh
> Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Re: An Open Letter to the SA-talk forum
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> Dan Wilder writes:
> >On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:04:13PM -0600, Scott A Crosby wrote:
> >> To everyone here, give the guy a break.
> >
> >Hear, hear!
> >
> >It's all too easy to make a mistake in print.   Give Logan
> >some slack for being professional enough to step forward
> >and admit it.  And some extra points for being willing to
> >join the fray that ensued.  A lesser soul would just run
> >away and hide.
> 
> Yeah, agreed!  Posting to the list was a good (and, TBH, brave) thing to
> do.
> 
> PS: And "boo" to the copy editor who trimmed that key line...
> 
> - --j.
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