> As was pointed out the last couple times this article was posted, this is an ad hominem fallacy. Not ad hominem - it was a "by the way..." in a private email

> As was pointed out the last couple times this article was posted, this is an ad hominem fallacy. Not ad hominem - it was a "by the way..." in a private email after a long exchange explaining his motivations and position first. And I think it's a fair criticism - I believe in looking at the messenger as well as the message. It probably should be 95% message and 5% messenger, but you ought to take criticism a lot seriously from people who are out doing important stuff in your field, and slightly less seriously from people who never have. So I wouldn't call it ad hominem. It is quite blunt, though. I don't know, I'm not normally a Steve Jobs fan, but I liked that quote myself.