A small preface - here's what I think is going on with McGovern:

His blog is an elaborate piece of satire

If you follow the link to his blog, you'll find that he links here, with the comment "One blogger that has a great perspective that the community should read is Charlie Savage". Well - that blog is all about mapping and GIS. Somewhere, the guy who actually writes the silliness on McGovern's site has been having a great laugh at my (and others) expense, as we took him seriously. I suppose the images he uses should have been a bigger hint :)

Having said that, there's some (small) value in pointing a couple of things out anyway:

James Robertson seems to be stuck in a loop on Smalltalk. Whenever there is controversy of any sort within the blogosphere, folks will more often that not express their perspective from the outsider looking in point of view. I wonder what James would think if he worked for a large Fortune enterprise...

Hmm - Seeing as how I'm the Product Manager for Cincom Smalltalk, is my advocacy position so hard to fathom? If I didn't believe in Cincom Smalltalk, I'd be off working for a client company somewhere, instead of being the head cheerleader here.

Oh, and as to me working at a Fortune 500 company? Gads no. I worked in the US Department of Defense for a few years, and stifling bureaucracy is not my idea of a good time. Thanks, but no thanks.