Re: ControlThink announces Z-wave SDK

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Frank Olson"

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> Where the heck is Kearney???  More "bashing" in this response, Mr.
> Kearney...  Mr. Kearney???  Ohhh...  I forgot...

I know Bill's tried explaining this to you before, but it hasn't quite made
it through to conscious thought.  Marc and Dave are not like you or me.
Both have been here for years, answering lots of questions in their
respective areas of expertise for hundreds, if not thousands, of people.
They are world-class specialists in their niches.  That earns them a little
more slack than you or I would be entitled to.

While I'd rather not see *any* backbiting in CHA, (hint, hint to D&M)
there's a substantial difference between two legendary posters having a
serious, though unfortunate personal disagreement and a harpy gnawing at
someone's liver every time he appears to post.

What you need to do is go to Google and count the posts they've made that
aren't "attack posts" and compare them to the ones that are.  When your
ratio of "out of bounds" posts starts to approach either of theirs *and* you
establish yourself as a renowned expert in some field germane to HA, then
I'll certainly cut you the same slack I cut them.  I'll bet Bill K. would,
too.  They've both been enormously helpful to me and while it's unfortunate
they're at loggerheads, it's not quite the same thing as your posts about
Bob Bass. Not at all.

The problem is that you're more likely to summit Mt. Everest than ever reach
their levels of expertise or their ratio of helpful to personal posts.
That, in a nutshell, is why you can't compare how people react to Marc H.
and Dave H. to the way they react to you.  It's just a question of signal
content and signal to noise ratios.   You've demonstrated on several
occasions that you *can* offer useful advice here.  Try keeping that up for
a while longer.  The results may surprise you!

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Bobby G.