Not absurd at all. If I were to say I had "secret sources" that tell me you are child-molester you would rightly be outraged.
If you "question" that a person who is giving good-faith technical advice is lying about what he is doing, you are questioning his professional integrity. If someone says his motive is to give sound advice based on facts and you say his motive is other than that you are calling him a liar.
If you do not provide evidence other than "inside information" you cannot be taken seriously.
I don't know you, but I also don't know you to be an "insider", privy to information others on this forum are not. I've been around the Fox community long enough to have a pretty good idea who has a clue about what is going on inside MS. I have no reason to believe you are one of them. If someone else her - other than you - believes in your soi-disant status as an "insider", I encourage them to correct me.
>>You questioned his motives - questioning his professional integrity. I think that's off base. If you have something to say, say it. But making implications about somebody's motives because of some insider knowledge you claim to have is sleazy.
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>>>>If Ken says he likes a language or whatever for technical reasons that's good enough for me. Your SPECULATION - which seems more like ranting-as-character-assassination - seems to me pretty ill-informed.
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>>>Hey - take a pill - I'm not "character assasinating" - you are simply over-reacting. I was asked "what possible motives might be" and I responded with what I clearly identified as speculation.
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>First of all - having 'motives' does not make one evil or without integrity - so I have NOT questioned his or anyone else's "professional integrity". I respect Ken and the whole VFP team, so you are simply wrong. Secondly - you keep missing the point. I was asked "what POSSIBLE motives" might there be and I responded with a POSSIBILITY - one that seems reasonable given what I've seen both publicly and privately. And what rule of etiquette, pray tell, requires that one divulge confidential sources or else not use them to form or express an opinion? That is absurd.
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