Just shake your head!

A few years ago, I accompanied a couple of Japanese visitors on a flight which took us over the plains of the US. Every so often they would look out and shake their heads. They later told me they were so jealous of all the land we had. The unsaid message was you guys could do so much better with the huge advantage you have.

I see the traffic on this ARmadgeddon blog. An anonymous post critiquing a firm. The firm responding  (with a name and contact info) "not our policy to engage in debate on anonymous blogs". Then a commenter criticizing the previous gentleman for not debating while themselves remaining anonymous. And these are all professionals in the tech community, not some young kids on MySpace.

And I thought to myself what would a Chinese or Iranian blogger think of this? He would be so jealous of our freedoms and just shake his head on how we in the West waste it on, pardon my language, chickenshit...what are we afraid of in the tech world to disclose who we are and engage in open debate, compared to what they face?