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[David Berthelot]

Well I also had the initial reaction of being concerned when I saw unfair
and just skipped the original email. I agree that unfair sounds wrong to my
ears but I now understand it might be some new startup buzzword, like
disruptive (a overused buzzword if there ever was one).

To put it in a trendy way:
I guess that "unfair advantage" is so "cutting-edge" that it became
"disruptive" to the "synergy" of the "value proposition", but it could be a
"win-win" situation for this "fast-growing" thread about to go "viral",
which would be a "game-changer".

Now that sounds "sassy" :)


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Rick Kwan <kenobi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "unfair advantage" is general business or marketing speak for raising
>> the bar against the competition so high so that it is almost not worth
>> their effort to compete against you.
>>
>
> Nevertheless I agree with Larry (hi Larry!) that its widespread use hints
> at the unethical side of business and I wouldn't want to be involved in a
> business that uses such terminology. The whole idea of seeing "unfairness"
> as something worth pursuing bothers me.
>
> --
> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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