Re: New blog post from Philip Hodgetts. Worth the read.

[Herb Sevush] "Doesn't Bill Davis qualify?"

Absolutely not.

I'm not as good an editor as many here. And I'm not even as familiar with X as many here - from whom I learn much in these discussions regularly.

The only thing I bring to the party is an almost pathological intolerance for one-sidedness.

I hate it because it stifles thinking. It narrows options. And it dumbs down discourse.

That is precisely what I saw happening here almost from day one. People so gleefully ready to trash something that they (at the time) had astonishingly little understanding about. (I actually had as little understanding myself, I just didn't feel as threatened and felt that Apple's long string of successes that have helped my business grow had earned them some time to show me why they did what they did - something I"m extremely happy that happened, because X has become a very useful tool in my editing toolkit - something that would not have happened if I'd listened to the half-dozen voices here that just couldn't see it in any context beyond "the end of everything good in the world."

The voices that question FCP-X and espouse rational reasons and keep open minds I respect. And can usually learn from them.

The ones who keep trashing it like it's some lurking child molester and they're babysitting a room full of cute kids - they deserve to be called out occasionally. And sorry, but drunk or not, Aindreas went there in public, so I'm comfortable with my criticism of his post.

I'd probably enjoy a pint with him if our paths ever cross. But for those who come hear to get some semblance of a balanced view of the programs capabilities (and weaknesses) I stand behind what I wrote.

FWIW.

"Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions."-Justice O'Connor