Anyway, you'll do what you do ... Dell will go along; they are just trying to miss a bullet that they, and I, know you can't even see. Let's hope we can mitigate the damage otherwise the industry is really screwed.
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Goffe expressed his frustration in a separate message to Windows colleagues about the Enderle exchange.
Honestly, in all my years of dealing with analysts, I have never been quite so flummoxed ... He is just dug in and is not willing to acknowledge reality.
And that was before Enderle brought Steve Ballmer into the mix. Here's the message Enderle sent Microsoft's CEO the next day.
Social networking sites are very concerned about this ... There is the potential liability, and it also reflects very badly on the site to be seen as a place for predators to prowl for children.
It's just the same as if you are at Disneyland and you scream profanities. That is not freedom of speech. You are on Disneyland's property. You have to follow their terms and conditions. If you don't, they escort you out of there ... But these companies claim to have good standards and then do nothing to enforce them. They let people breach their terms and conditions and do nothing about it.