So I guess all of this back and forth on the NAC market and Lockdown has some people getting a little emotional. First, founder #4 (I wasn't even aware there was a founder #4) of Lockdown, Daevid comments on my last post taking me to task for having the audacity to moderate my comments, even after I require people to put in their name and email address in order to comment. I think Daevid is under the impression that I wouldn't publish comments critical of me and that this is cowardly of me. He thinks that this somehow gives me the courage to speak my mind.

Wow. First of all I guess Daevid has never had a blog before, so is not aware of the blog spam problem that forced many of us bloggers to install moderated comments. As I am sure most of you are aware, but for Daevid's benefit, I don't censor any comments to my blog, in fact I encourage them. I just won't allow spammers to use my blog. It has nothing to do with my courage or cowardice, it is more to do that I think blogs should be two way conversations. It makes blogging fun. It goes to blogging for the sake of blogging, something I am not sure Daevid quite understands. I do understand that this is a difficult time for Daevid. No one likes to see something they helped start not be successful. I am sure he thinks that I was not sensitive enough to the situation there. But anyone who has read my blog for a period of time knows that my views on Lockdown Networks have been pretty consistent for a long time. I am sorry if that ruffles his feathers, but I do blog for the sake of blogging and say what I think. One thing though, if I say something, I always have the courage to say I said it and put my name to it. Whether to your face or on this blog, I am pretty straight forward and don't hide behind anything.

Now, that leads me to a comment I read on another blog involved here. A really brave guy who signs himself in as James Kirk, leaves a comment and urges another vendor/blogger on NAC to "try and be as neutral to the industry as possible" and not be a new blogger "that blogs for the sake of blogging". He goes on to say some other things that my own paranoia makes me pretty sure he is talking about me. The neutral thing though is a bit naive, don't you think. If someone is blogging on a company blog, don't you think they are going to try and put their company in the best light and not be just neutral? Come on Kirk, you should have learned that in your first day at Starfleet Academy. You as the reader should be the arbiter of what is true, partially true or false. But the naievite of that comment pales in comparison to the second quote. Don't blog for the sake of blogging. James Kirk, to quote one of your friends, that is not logical. Why else should you blog, but for the sake of blogging? Bloggers blog because they want to hear themselves and they want the world to hear them as well. Blogging is singularly an ego-driven sport. Your total lack of understanding of this fact makes it clear why you did not have the courage to use your real name. You just don't get it. James Kirk maybe you should stick to fighting Romulans and leave the blogging to us.