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Honestly, I have to agree with a lot of the commentators on TC. I am not quite sure what Steve was getting at there. Anyone else feel this way? And if someone did figure out what he was getting get, care to elaborate?

I always know a Gillmor post because my eyes start glossing over by paragraph two. Something about the way he puts together his prose makes it very difficult to gain any information from his words.

"But each chink in the old Microsoft armor cuts two ways..." means what, exactly?

edit--Here's another gem from his comments: "Kool Aid flows in both directions." His mixed metaphors are really, really sloppy. I'm probably going to have to start collecting these crazy quotes.

The piece was about as concrete as a corporate mission statement, and just as prosaic.

Someone should send him a copy of "Made To Stick: Why some ideas survive and others die" - Chip & Dan Heath.

The writeup makes no sense. It doesn't even meet basic standards for english grammar and understandability.

From the page: "On Microsoft’s side, Twitter needs to end the rivalry between Exchange and SQL Server on the delivery side"

wow, and I thought it was just me. Seriously, did he read (and re-read) what he wrote before he published it?

My theory is that Techcrunch is experimenting with someone's technology demo for writing Op-Eds with AI.

Either that or the writer took one bonghit too many before sitting down to write.

It sounds visionary but it's really incoherent.

Spolsky once dissected a rant by Steve Gillmore only to comment that "It took me over three hours to research and explain all this, and, as you’ll see if you follow closely, Gillmor’s entire argument fell apart under scrutiny, so I don’t think I’m going to be doing in-depth explanation like this again."

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/12/23.html

Mesh abstracts devices and operating systems into objects that can be coordinated and orchestrated to deliver the appearance of a single or composite device. That’s the guiding principle behind virtualization, which permits applications to address these virtual devices as single entities while spreading computational load across machines, domains, and business processes.

This is gibberish.

Please, no more cross-posts of Steve Gillmor's rambling stream-of-consciousness TechCrunch essays? Or at least include "Steve Gillmor" in the headline, so we know there's no news content?

Makes no sense!

Sounds like it came straight out of this: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

Honestly, does anyone know where Steve Gillmor even came from? I had never heard of him until 2-3 months ago, when TechCrunch started making a play at the "Gillmor Gang", and then gradually started phasing in his posts. As bad as his prose is, he's not much better as a podcast host-- he's rude, unapologetic, and generally condescending to his "guests". You get the same sense from his writing.

"In the past, you could measure Microsoft’s success by others’ weakness"

Do people actually have that mentality?

I don't think people have that mentality to judge anyone base on people's weakness, maybe majority judge them by the percentage profit compare to time?

I'm just a bit bugged that someone actually thinks that's how the industry works.

I bet Steve Gillmor can't code.

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