"I'm more worried about whether I've left my hair iron on than this little email exchange,"
"It really isn't going to affect my career," says Ms. Abdala, "and if it does, it's probably for the better."
...Dianna Abdala does seem a little concerned about 'what comes around'. From The Boston Herald:
Abdala said she filed a complaint with the state Board of Bar Overseers. "Attorney Korman threatened my career," she said, "and I don't think anybody would have been welcoming to such a threat."
As to where all of this has gotten her:
She has since started her own practice, saying she will do court-appointed criminal defense work.
The underlying assumption from which his whole argument springs, is the part that is unambiguously wrong.
But as TPM leaves, so do the digital offerings that come with it.
Slashdot itself is one of a ridiculous number of counterexamples. When exactly did it become conventional wisdom that nobody would produce information or entertainment if they couldn't get stinking rich off of it?
pioneered not failed
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Palm helped pioneer the industry (following on previous work by Apple, etc.), then the leadership sold it and moved on. As such, it has been little more than a copyrighted name since then. It represented some visionary work and when the visionaries walked away, the copyright's value slowly disappeared.
It wasn't a failure, even though the products that now are Palm are failures. Microsoft, et al, have picked up where Palm's visionaries left off, much as Palm did with its predecessors.
Slashdot Mirror
The underlying assumption from which his whole argument springs, is the part that is unambiguously wrong.
Slashdot itself is one of a ridiculous number of counterexamples. When exactly did it become conventional wisdom that nobody would produce information or entertainment if they couldn't get stinking rich off of it?
Palm helped pioneer the industry (following on previous work by Apple, etc.), then the leadership sold it and moved on. As such, it has been little more than a copyrighted name since then. It represented some visionary work and when the visionaries walked away, the copyright's value slowly disappeared. It wasn't a failure, even though the products that now are Palm are failures. Microsoft, et al, have picked up where Palm's visionaries left off, much as Palm did with its predecessors.